Home Purchase Plans

Gatehouse Bank revives high FTV home finance plans

Gatehouse Bank has reintroduced a range of Home Purchase Plan (HPP) products with higher...

Gatehouse Bank lowers home finance product rates and improves criteria

Gatehouse Bank has announced a series of product changes, including a 50 basis point...

Gatehouse Bank added to Mortgage Brain sourcing platforms

Mortgage Brain has added Shariah-compliant ethical bank, Gatehouse Bank, to its Sourcing Brain and...

Gatehouse Bank cuts rental rates

Gatehouse Bank has made rental rate reductions across its full range of buy-to-let products...

Gatehouse Bank reduces selected rates for UK residents

Gatehouse Bank has lowered rental rates across selected Home Purchase Plans (HPP) and buy-to-let...

Gatehouse Bank improves online DiP facility

Gatehouse Bank has made changes to its online Decision in Principle (DIP) facility, by...

Gatehouse Bank launches 2-year and 5-year fixed term buy-to-let products

Gatehouse Bank has launched new reduced 2-year and 5-year fixed term buy-to-let products and...

Growing awareness of Islamic finance among UK Muslim consumers

Gatehouse Bank, a Shariah-compliant UK challenger bank, has published new research on consumer awareness,...

Three-quarters of Muslims want religiously-aligned financial products

76% of UK Muslims say it’s important to have financial products which fit with...

StrideUp bolsters sales team with appointment

StrideUp has added to its sales team with the recruitment of Rizwan Ali as...

Q&A: Sakeeb Zaman, StrideUp

BestAdvice fires the questions at Sakeeb Zaman, CEO and co-founder of StrideUp. BestAdvice (BA): StrideUp...

StrideUp makes fixed rate reductions of 80bps

StrideUp has cut rates on its two, five and 10-year fixed rate products by...

Gatehouse Bank cuts HPP rates by 0.50%

Gatehouse Bank has made changes to its Home Purchase Plan products. The bank has cut...

StrideUp cuts rates by up to 60bps

StrideUp, the Shariah-compliant home finance provider, has reduced rates on its two, five and...

COMMENT

The economics of developing the next generation of advisers

Over the past couple of decades, I have worked alongside literally thousands of AR and DA firms, from businesses employing one or two advisers...

Is Andy Burnham the New Messiah or just Starmer with better eyebrows?

What a damning indictment of Labour that Andy Burnham appears to be strolling towards the leadership in what looks less like a contest and...

Approvals hit a 2.5-year low: When broker value gets proven – or missed

Net mortgage approvals dropped to 56,200 in May – the lowest since December 2023 - down from 66,000 the month before. Net borrowing fell from...

Removing friction from the homebuying journey

One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...

Build, baby, build? Well we will need to fund more than the usual suspects

There was a noticeable sense of optimism at UKREiiF this year. That may sound surprising given the economic headwinds of recent years, but the...

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The economics of developing the next generation of advisers

Over the past couple of decades, I have worked alongside literally thousands of AR...

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