Loans

Nivo unveils broker-lender messenger service

Nivo has launched a new B2B digital messenger service following feedback from its recently...

Unsecured loan for later life borrowers unveiled

A new over-55s brand, Free2, has launched its first product, an unsecured loan which...

Norton Home Loans unveils digital document process

Norton Home Loans has partnered with Freedom Finance to implement new digital secured loan...

Masthaven appoints independent non-executive director

Masthaven Bank has announced the appointment of Malcolm McCaig to its board as an...

Click2Check signs up two new advisory firms to Credit Assess

Click2Check has announced two new advisory practice sign-ups for its Credit Assess product, its...

Dream home priorities shift during lockdown

Research from the Skipton Building Society reveals more than a quarter of the 2,000...

Shawbrook issues second charge offer in 24 hours

Shawbrook Bank has issued an offer on a second charge mortgage in 24 hours. Fluent...

Second charge tech steering group established

Nivo has formed a technology steering committee encapsulating the majority of the biggest lenders...

Loans Warehouse in secure data sharing partnership

Loans Warehouse has partnered with Credit Kudos as its Open Banking provider, to enable...

Covid-19 dominates Knowledge Bank’s April searches

April’s results from the monthly Knowledge Bank tracker of criteria searches show that across...

OSB moves to 70% LTV ceiling on BTL and residential

OneSavings Bank has announced "enhanced" lending options. Precise Mortgages recently extended its range of products to...

Masthaven appoints new CEO

Masthaven Bank has appointment Leigh Bartlett as its new chief executive officer (CEO). ...

West One Loans improves second charge offering

West One Loans has made a number of changes to its second charge product range. The...

West One Loans joins IMLA

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has revealed that West One Loans has become...

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...

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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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