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New online lending calculator introduced

Online mortgage broker Dwell has launched a new Universal Mortgage Calculator, which it claims...

Small deposit lending back on the rise

Small deposit buyers continued to increase their share of the UK mortgage market in...

Monthly dip in gross mortgage lending

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has estimated that gross mortgage lending reached £18.4...

The Skipton cuts Help to Buy rates

The Skipton Building Society has cut rates on the majority of its Help to Buy products,...

Home buyer activity in London continues to fall

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported that in the first quarter of...

The Family BS joins Positive panel

Positive Lending has announced the addition of the Family Building Society to its packager...

The Yorkshire offers FTBs a 3.25% fix

The Yorkshire Building Society has introduced a two-year fixed rate mortgage at 3.25%. The 95%...

Mortgage volumes down 12% year-on-year

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that, on a non-seasonally adjusted basis,...

Kensington to move into Help to Buy

Kensington Mortgages intends to launch a Help to Buy equity loan proposition for London,...

Accord to continue with welcome boxes

Accord Mortgages is set to continue with its welcome box initiative following a positive...

Growing social divisions in UK housing market

2016 saw the role of cash in funding house purchases reach a post-recession high,...

Platform ups loan to income ratio

Platform has increased the loan to income ratio for qualifying mortgage applicants.  The intermediary mortgage brand...

Halifax reports quarterly fall in house prices

Halifax has revealed that house prices fell by 0.2% over the past three months. It...

Halifax Intermediaries unveils grand cashback offer

Halifax Intermediaries is offering first-time buyers and homemovers £1000 cashback on qualifying mortgages. The...

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Why the human relationship still defines real estate lending

AI is now a core driver of transformation in financial services and is reshaping the foundations of real estate lending. According to AllAboutAI.com over 85%...

Income protection: the unsung hero of the cost-of-living crisis

Higher mortgage rates, rising energy costs, and continued inflation have put pressure on many household budgets. Advisers spend time helping customers find the right rate,...

Why rigid credit scoring is locking too many people out of homeownership

Some people don’t fit the mould. That’s always been true in mortgage lending. But the tools used by most lenders to assess borrowers, particularly...

What a bigger market means for brokers

The latest Interpath and BDLA UK Bridging Market Survey confirms what many brokers are already experiencing on the ground, that bridging has hit the...

How social media can bridge the protection disconnect

The latest AMI Protection Viewpoint provided a compelling snapshot of the challenges and opportunities facing the protection market. The research highlights a worrying pattern that...

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Movera launches specialist KYC team to speed up property transactions

Movera has established a new dedicated Know Your Client (KYC) team to handle source...

Surveying industry undervalued in race to the bottom

After a 16-month break from the property industry I returned to find a landscape...

HSBC to cut residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates

HSBC UK is reducing rates across a wide range of residential and buy-to-let mortgage...

Zephyr Homeloans cuts rates across core buy-to-let offering

Specialist buy-to-let mortgage provider Zephyr Homeloans has unveiled fresh rate reductions across its standard...

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