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IMLA: business as usual on the horizon

The intermediary mortgage market has recovered well from the disruption following the mini-budget in...

First time buyer levels set for new low in 2022

The number of people buying their first home dropped significantly in the first three...

Gen H cuts 5-year rates and adds 3-year deals

Gen H has announced reductions across its five-year product ranges and introduced a new...

Twenty7Tec search records broken last month

Twenty7tec has published its findings based on its mortgage platform data for January 2023. January...

Coventry for Intermediaries improves 90-95% LTV rates

Coventry for Intermediaries has reduced all five-year fixed rates at 90-95% LTV and launched...

Skipton cuts rates across government mortgage schemes

Skipton Building Society has announced rate reductions across its mortgage product suite. From 9am tomorrow...

The big issues that brokers will face in 2023

It’s been a long and, at times, difficult year for the property market and...

Signs of positivity for 95% LTV market

So, 2023 is now fully underway and we await to see just how the...

Proportion of owner-occupiers in England is declining

Leeds Building Society has analysed some key national, regional, and local owner occupation figures...

December mortgage searches down on previous month

Twenty7tec has issued its findings based on its mortgage platform data for December 2022. In...

SmartrFit data show activity levels fuelled by foreign buyers

As UK lenders return to the market, data from Legal & General’s SmartrFit platform...

Gifted deposits taking 11 years off FTB saving requirements

A UK household saving the UK median of £180 per month would take 10.9...

Family Building Society unveils new five-year fixed rate mortgages

Family Building Society has launched new fixed rate mortgages and replaced the majority of...

TML provides complex self-employed FTB offer in five days

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has outlined its approach in dealing with self-employed applications, moving...

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The Treasury is casting more floaters than a sewage farm

The problem with having a thoroughly inexperienced Chancellor and a properly ‘woodenheaded’ Prime Minister, is that they are learning the job ‘on the hoof’...

HMOs: market realities, future prospects, and the broker opportunity

The HMO sector remains one of the most dynamic parts of the private rented market, with recent data showing it’s both a significant asset...

Bridging the Pond: How large is the US bridging finance market, and compared to the UK?

When we first got started with LendInvest in the UK, post the financial crisis, bridging finance was a much more nascent product than it...

Passing the affordability exam

As teachers and students of various ages have spent August nervously opening exam results following years of study that will determine their ability to...

Investors are changing their approach – and lenders should too

The buy-to-let market never stands still, but the pace of change in recent years has been remarkable. The days of the so-called ‘accidental landlord’,...

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Car finance no longer weighs heavily on mortgage borrowing

Homebuyers with car loans are now able to borrow thousands more on their mortgages...

Climate change concern reshaping UK property market, survey finds

Climate change has become a decisive factor in UK property transactions, with new research...

iPipeline expands ‘advanced underwriting’ to whole adviser market

iPipeline has extended its advanced underwriting feature to all advisers using its SolutionBuilder platform,...

Housing market ‘faces two months of uncertainty’

The housing market is braced for a prolonged period of uncertainty after Coventry Building...