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Family Building Society eases borrowing barriers for landlords and homeowners

Family Building Society has unveiled a series of changes to its lending criteria and...

Norton Finance named launch partner for new lender

Norton Finance has been announced as a launch partner for Afin Bank, the newly...

Brokers demand greater clarity from lenders, new report finds

Nearly half of brokers want lenders to publish bridging loan criteria in a consistent...

Borrowers take on larger mortgages as lenders ease affordability rules

Mortgage borrowers took advantage of loosened lending criteria in May, selecting significantly larger loans...

Vida unveils AI chatbot to expand broker support

Specialist mortgage lender Vida has launched an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot to improve support for...

Clydesdale Bank eases mortgage rules for foreign nationals

Clydesdale Bank has introduced a series of changes to their mortgage lending criteria, aimed...

Clydesdale Bank eases criteria for self-employed mortgage applicants

Clydesdale Bank is set to introduce a series of changes to its mortgage criteria...

Pepper Money broadens mortgage access for UK visa holders

Specialist lender Pepper Money has updated its residential mortgage criteria to allow UK visa...

Gable Mortgages launches zero-deposit products to support first-time buyers

Gable Mortgages has entered the UK market with the launch of two zero-deposit mortgage...

Knowledge Bank sees record-breaking activity

Knowledge Bank recorded more than 100,000 searches in April – the highest monthly total...

Q&A: Chris Blewitt, Darlington Building Society

Mortgage Soup fires the questions at Chris Blewitt, head of mortgage distribution at Darlington Building...

LendInvest lowers buy-to-let rates across product range

LendInvest Mortgages has lowered interest rates across its buy-to-let (BTL) mortgage product range. All 2-year...

Buckinghamshire BS renames product ranges amid criteria update

Buckinghamshire Building Society has made a series of product updates and criteria improvements. As part...

Air maintains top-ranking status for product and criteria sourcing

Air continues to be a leading intermediary services brand in the later life lending...
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2026 forecasts: St. James’s Place

Four senior figures at St. James’s Place outline themes, opportunities and concerns for 2026. JUSTIN ONUEKWUSI, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER Artificial intelligence is likely to remain a...

2026 forecasts: Atom bank

Chris Storey, chief commercial officer at Atom bank, provides his thoughts on the residential and commercial mortgage market as we head into the new...

“It’s Christmas time, there’s no need not to check your supplier list…”

With the Christmas holidays upon us, it’s fair to say that business issues might be slipping down the priority list just a little bit,...

FS25/6 and the execution-only irony brokers can’t ignore

Reading FCA FS25/6, it is difficult not to notice an uncomfortable irony in the regulator’s conclusions around execution-only sales. The paper rightly raises concerns about...

Less Autumn Budget and more Autumn Bodgit

After months of fevered speculation before the Budget residential property transactions juddered to a halt. I always suspected that as ‘confidence arrives on foot and...

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