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Molo joins Finova panel

Finova Payment and Mortgage Services has announced its partnership with digital mortgage lender Molo,...

Leeds BS improves buy-to-let rates

Leeds Building Society has instituted rate reductions across its buy-to-let mortgage range. Following rate cuts...

Three in 10 landlords looking to expand portfolios

32% of buy-to-let landlords plan to buy property in the next 12 months, according...

Annual rental yields up markedly in England & Wales

Fleet Mortgages has published the latest iteration of its Buy-to-Let Rental Barometer covering Q3...

Clever Lending completes £1.9m MUFB deal with HTB

Clever Lending has helped a customer who needed to refinance a Multi Unit Freehold...

Roma Finance secures new funding facility with Cambridge BS

Roma Finance has announced a new £120m lending facility with the Cambridge Building Society. The...

Shawbrook: landlords could bring new life to high streets

19% of landlords are considering diversifying into commercial property, according to recent research from...

Virgin Money offers new remortgage exclusives and cuts BTL fixed rates

Virgin Money has announced changes to selected mortgage products. It has withdrawn the following products: Remortgage...

Redwood Bank unveils cashback offer for green landlords

Redwood Bank is offering a new Green Reward cashback offer to portfolio landlords. The bank...

Lendlord introduces app for tenants

Lendlord, a platform for property investors and landlords, has launched a Tenants App to...

Paragon launches its lowest BTL fixed rate in over a year

Paragon Bank has launched a 4.69% five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgage, its lowest rate for...

The Mortgage Lender launches two new BTL deals

The Mortgage Lender has introduced two new buy-to-let products. The lender’s new products include a...

Precise Mortgages lowers assessment and stress rates

Precise Mortgages has simplified the minimum ICR for personal ownership applications and improved how...

80% of landlords says they were prepared for EPC proposals

UK landlords say they were in the main prepared for the government’s proposed Energy...

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Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

URGENT! AI Is coming for you. Or maybe not…

I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

Navigating HMO and MUFB complexity with confidence

Historically, larger Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and Multi-Unit Freehold Blocks (MUFBs) have often been avoided due to their complex layouts, individual planning requirements,...

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Bellway renews call for Help to Buy as housing recovery stalls

Housebuilder Bellway says the UK housing market recovery has “stalled” over summer, renewing its...

34 organisations back plan to accelerate green mortgage lending

Decarbonising Britain’s homes is one of the most complex and expensive challenges of the...

The West Brom raises income multiples to help buyers with smaller deposits

West Brom Building Society has eased its mortgage lending rules in a bid to...

Brokers warn of rising underinsurance as premiums outpace protection

A growing number of brokers fear that more households are falling into underinsurance as...