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Second charge market returns to growth

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has reported that second charge mortgage new business...

Fluent Money partners with NerdWallet

Fluent Money Group is to work with NerdWallet as its exclusive partner for secured...

UTB launches broker summer support package

United Trust Bank (UTB) is returning to a maximum loan to value (LTV) of...

MCI teams up with Loans Warehouse

MCI Mortgage Club has partnered with Loans Warehouse to provide more second charge and bridging products...

NatWest Intermediary Solutions ups max additional lending remortgage LTV

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is increasing its maximum loan to value (LTV) for remortgage applications...

West One Loans improves second charge proposition

West One Loans has made product and criteria changes to its Apex 1 second...

Paragon withdraws from second charge market

Paragon Banking Group has decided to quit the second charge mortgage market in order...

Sesame Bankhall Group unveils new master broker panel

Sesame Bankhall Group has announced that PMS Mortgage Club and Sesame Network members now...

Watch collection used for SME loan

Alternative security short term lender, Suros Capital, has provided an £81,600 loan to an...

UTB joins MCI lender panel

United Trust Bank (UTB) has become the latest lender to join MCI Club's lender...

FLA: second charge new business volumes stable

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has reported that the value of second charge...

Central Trust now live on Criteria Hub

Criteria Hub, the criteria-based sourcing solution from mortgage technology expert Mortgage Brain, is now...

Norton Broker Services unveils bridging department

Loan broker, Norton Finance, is now offering to intermediaries bridging finance as well as...

Smaller brokerages behind boost for second charge lender

Evolution Money has revealed that March was a record month for the business in...

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Mortgage maturity: A golden opportunity for advisers

Around 1.8 million fixed-rate mortgage deals are due to come to an end in 2026, adding to the 1.6 million mortgages that already matured...

Rates are moving and regulation is evolving

Many lenders are having to increase their rates, and that trend looks set to continue over the coming week. For clients whose current deal...

Building tomorrow’s mortgage market: AI built on trust, governance and confidence

The government's Financial Services AI Adoption Plan, led by Harriet Rees, group chief information officer at Starling Bank, and Dr Rohit Dhawan, group director...

The protection prompt: what AI still needs to get right

The Mills Review has prompted plenty of discussion across the mortgage industry. While much of the focus has been on the finding that a...

Why second charges are helping Right to Buy borrowers do more with their home

For many people, Right to Buy is still one of the most accessible ways to become a homeowner and over the last five years,...

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IMLA supports flexible mortgage rules but says housing supply remains key

Mortgage lenders have backed proposals to give first-time buyers and other underserved borrowers greater...

Mortgage borrowing jumps to £7.7bn

Net mortgage borrowing more than doubled to £7.7bn in June, up from £3.3bn in...

AMI says mortgage rule reforms must keep advice at their core

Proposals to give lenders greater flexibility must be supported by mortgage advice if they...

Stamp duty deters half of over-65s from moving

Half of over-65s see stamp duty as a barrier to moving home, despite 58%...

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