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EQUIS reports 30% increase in loans written

EQUIS has revealed that its members wrote loans worth over £1.1 billion in 2015, representing...

2015 a “brilliant year” for the bridging sector

The latest West One Bridging Index has found that gross annual bridging lending surpassed...

Shawbrook Bank to follow diversification strategy

Shawbrook Bank plc has reported a 63% increase in underlying profit by to over...

Nationwide: UK house price growth remains steady

The Nationwide Building Society has reported an increase of 0.3% in house prices in...

First Complete adds Kent Reliance to lender panel

Kent Reliance has been appointed to the First Complete lender panel. The specialist intermediary lender,...

Countrywide takes stake in The Buy To Let Business

Countrywide plc has made a "significant" investment in Camberley based The Buy to Let...

LMS partners with the Tipton & Coseley

Conveyancing panel manager LMS has announced a new partnership with the Tipton & Coseley...

Tenants will end up paying stamp duty hike

The 3% stamp duty surcharge being introduced by the chancellor on new buy-to-let purchases will just...

Connect adds buy-to-let lender to panel

Connect for Intermediaries has added Axis Bank to its panel of mortgage lenders. 

 Connect’s...

Accord cuts buy-to-let fixed rates

Accord Buy to Let has reduced selected rates by up to 0.15 percentage points on its...

Tenants stressing out one-third of landlords

Research from tenancy and property management firm London Shared found that 76% of landlords...

TSB raises selected mortgage rates

TSB has made changes to rates on a selection of its mortgages.  The rises will affect a selected...

ARLA sees worsening housing supply picture

The Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) has highlighted the continuing problem of housing...

Precise extends HMO maximum bedroom criteria

Precise Mortgages has expanded its HMO lending criteria to accept properties with up to...
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Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

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Phoebus completes latest SOC 2 Type II assessment

Phoebus Software has renewed its SOC 2 Type II attestation after KPMG assessed the...
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Low-deposit mortgage lending climbs 38% to £24.7bn

Mortgage lending at loan-to-value ratios above 90% rose sharply over the past year as...
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Stonebridge reports sharp rise in protection policies placed in trust

The proportion of protection policies being placed in trust has risen substantially over the...
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Countrywide Surveying adds 35 newly qualified surveyors in 2026

Countrywide Surveying Services has added 35 newly qualified surveyors to its workforce so far...