Commercial

Crystal Mortgages moves into seconds

Commercial mortgage finance and bridging loan firm Crystal Mortgages is branching out into the...

Mortgage Business Expo to visit Yorkshire

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has signed up over 40 major financial companies, including specialist...

Budget 2015: bad debt relief for peer to peer lenders

It was announced in today's Budget that peer to peer lenders will be able...

Shawbrook Bank unveils commercial mortgages ops team

Members of Shawbrook Bank's central customer operations team who handle commercial mortgage deals have...

Ultimate Finance appoints regional director

Bristol-based Ultimate Finance Group has appointed Colin Chastey as regional director for the South...

UTB reveals ‘Best of British’ broker winner

United Trust Bank has announced the winner of its 2014 ‘Best of British’ promotion....

Bibby appoints head of sales

Specialist funder Bibby Financial Services has appointed Robin Crouch as its head of sales...

Shawbrook plans stock market flotation

Shawbrook Group plc has this morning announced its intention to float on the London...

New deal to extend SME trade financing

Alibaba.com has announced a strategic partnerships with lenders ezbob and iwoca to help UK...

£10m together for Vantage Finance and Shawbrook

Vantage Finance has revealed that in February it wrote over £10m of loans with...

Zopa celebrates a decade in P2P lending

Peer-to-peer lender Zopa has marked the tenth anniversary of its service. The British business launched on...

Signature Private Finance expands distribution

Signature Private Finance has appointed Brilliant Solutions to its distribution panel. Nigel Robbins, Signature’s...

Asset finance new business up by 13% in January

Latest figures from the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show growth in asset finance...

TFC Homeloans secures CCA permissions from regulator

TFC Homeloans has been granted full CCA permissions by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)....
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Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

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Building Societies

The Monmouthshire gives more than £10k to flood-hit local community

Monmouthshire Building Society has donated more than £10,000 to residents, sports clubs and businesses...
Buy-to-let

Rent growth slows as house prices edge higher, with Middle East tensions clouding outlook

Private rent inflation eased again in March while UK house prices rose modestly in...
Appointments

Gen H expands broker sales team with three BDM hires and internal promotion

Gen H has expanded its broker sales team with three new business development managers...
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Detached homes dominate new lifetime mortgage lending in early 2026

Owners of detached properties accounted for more than four in 10 new lifetime mortgages...

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