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Landbay joins network panel

Landbay has joined Synergy Commercial Finance’s network panel. Landbay was already on Synergy’s packager panel...

Zephyr Homeloans joins Brilliant Solutions’ mortgage club

Zephyr Homeloans has joined the panel of Brilliant Solutions’ mortgage club. Members of the direct-to-lender...

Just Mortgages reports record month

September was Just Mortgages' best ever month for both applications and exchanges in September....

Openwork opens graduate programme

Openwork has launched its first Graduate Wealth Pathway scheme. The new scheme, which offers the...

Stonebridge hits £1bn in monthly applications again

Stonebridge has continued its recent record monthly lending volumes, having processed over £1 billion...

The Right Mortgage hires national accounts manager

The Right Mortgage has announced the appointment of Michael O’Brien as its new national...

TMA expands later life lending proposition

TMA Club has added Access Equity Release and Knight Frank Finance as equity release referral...

Age Partnership Group appoints network managing director

Age Partnership has appointed Dan Baines as managing director of Equity Release Associates (ERA),...

Landbay partners with Primis 

Buy-to-let lender, Landbay, has announced a partnership with Primis Mortgage Network. Primis’ brokers and their...

CSF and Together offer new complex BTL deal

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) and Together have launched a new complex buy-to-let product for...

Together pilots its lowest ever BTL rate

Dynamo for Intermediaries is assisting Together with a pilot of the lender's new semi-exclusive...

Bluestone Mortgages expands distribution 

Bluestone Mortgages is joining Mortgage Compliance & Insurance Club’s (MCI Club) lender panel. The partnership...

HLPartnership sees higher activity levels than pre-lockdown

Mortgage and protection network, HL Partnership (HLP) has reported that activity levels by members...

3mc unveils Pepper BTL exclusives

3mc has launched an exclusive range of limited company buy-to-let products with Pepper Money. The...

COMMENT

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...

Latest news

ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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