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LiveMore launches mortgage for homes with spray foam insulation

LiveMore has launched a mortgage designed for homeowners whose properties have become difficult to...

Afin Bank joins Mortgage Advice Bureau lender panel

Afin Bank has joined Mortgage Advice Bureau’s lender panel, giving its advisers access to...

Fleet Mortgages broadens buy-to-let criteria for foreign nationals and limited companies

Fleet Mortgages has widened its lending criteria for buy-to-let borrowers, introducing greater flexibility for...

Mortgage rates fall at fastest pace in almost two years

Fixed mortgage rates have recorded their biggest monthly reductions for almost two years, as...

The Mortgage Works cuts buy-to-let rates

The Mortgage Works has reduced buy-to-let mortgage rates by up to 0.25 percentage points...

Nationwide cuts mortgage rates for third time this month

Nationwide Building Society has reduced mortgage rates by up to 0.25 percentage points across...

Hodge broadens property lending criteria across residential ranges

Hodge Bank has expanded its property lending criteria, widening access to mortgage finance for...

Hodge widens foreign national mortgage criteria with 95% LTV lending

Hodge Bank has expanded its foreign national mortgage criteria, increasing maximum loan-to-value limits and...

Hodge Bank raises maximum loan sizes

Hodge Bank has increased maximum loan sizes across key loan-to-value bands and changed affordability...

Pure Retirement launches AI criteria chatbot for advisers

Pure Retirement has launched an AI-driven criteria chatbot to help advisers obtain lending criteria...

The Buckinghamshire joins Mortgage Broker Tools platform

Buckinghamshire Building Society has partnered with Mortgage Broker Tools to make its lending proposition...

Offa joins Knowledge Bank to expand broker reach

Offa has partnered with Knowledge Bank as the Islamic property finance fintech looks to...

Vida cuts residential rates and loosens criteria for self-employed and contractor borrowers

Vida has reduced selected residential mortgage rates by up to 106 basis points and...

GB Bank joins Knowledge Bank criteria platform

GB Bank has been added to Knowledge Bank’s criteria sourcing platform, giving brokers access...
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COMMENT

Comment

Taking the anxiety out of finance

It’s an anxious time for mortgage borrowers. A recent study by Handelsbanken Wealth found that the proportion of UK adults apprehensive about making mortgage...

Cashback should put conveyancing into the advice conversation

One of the more interesting findings from our latest quarterly statistics was the position of Nationwide Building Society, which accounted for 25% of all...

Why ownership structure matters in buy-to-let

It's a scenario brokers encounter every day. Two landlord clients approach them about the same type of buy-to-let property, with similar levels of equity...

You own the shares, but are you really just the custodian?

I've built three businesses and I've said the same thing most entrepreneurs have probably said to their mates and family at some point: "Give...

The FCA protection market study shouldn’t ignore redundancy

Considering a third of employers are likely to implement staff redundancies by January 2027, according to Acas, redundancy cover shouldn’t be ignored in wider...

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Technology

AI could prove critical as later life lending demand grows, Air warns

Later life lending specialists may struggle to capitalise on growing demand for advice unless...
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Home improvement finance surges 112% as households invest in existing properties

Finance for home improvements more than doubled in the third quarter of 2026, according...
Later Life

Younger equity release borrowers more likely to make interest payments

Borrowers under the age of 70 account for nearly two-thirds of more2life's lifetime mortgage...
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Chetwood Bank names new board risk committee chair

Chetwood Bank has appointed Melanie Czarra as a non-executive director and chair of its...

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