Loans

Paragon revamps second charge product range

Paragon has cut the interest rates on its second charge mortgage products. Aimed at prime...

Prestige completes its largest ever second charge

Prestige Finance has completed a £1,000,000 second charge loan within three weeks. This is the...

New lender aims to halve secured loan completion time

Digital secured lender, Selina Finance has launched its flexible loan product with a promise...

JLM Mortgage Services unveils specialist mortgage desk for members

JLM Mortgage Services has launched Master Private Finance, a new specialist mortgage desk exclusively...

TMA in second charge partnership with Paragon

TMA Club will be providing its members with access to a range of additional second...

MCI Club selects Knowledge Bank as criteria search partner

MCI Club has partnered with Knowledge Bank for its exclusive criteria search provision. It means...

The Money Group sponsors Olympic judo athlete

The Money Group is sponsoring judo athlete Ashley McKenzie ahead of his planned appearance...

Review of credit information market opened by regulator

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a market study to examine how the...

Optimum Credit increases prime second charge LTV to 100%

Optimum Credit is increasing the maximum loan to value (LTV) available on its Prime...

Confidence in the specialist lending market continues to rise

Masthaven Bank's latest Broker Beat report has found that 73% of intermediaries working in...

United Trust Bank reveals 2018 ‘Open Book’ winner

United Trust Bank has announced that the winner of its 2018 ‘Open Book’ broker...

Smart Money appoints national account manager

Specialist finance master broker Smart Money has announced the appointment of Gary Lomax as its...

This is not a competition

With recent FLA figures showing that second charge business was up 31% in March,...

Second charge volumes continue to rise

The Finance & Leasing Association has reported that second charge mortgage market volumes were...
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Buy-to-let

First-time, accidental or professional? How the landlord profile is shifting in 2026

One of the most common misconceptions that people have about the buy-to-let market is that landlords are a single, uniform group. The reality is...

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

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Technology

Virgin Money to take mortgage application systems offline for five days

Virgin money has announced that its Virgin Money and Clydesdale online application platforms will...
Later Life

Parental support for adult children is reshaping retirement plans

Three in five parents with children aged over 18 are providing financial support, with...
First-time buyers

LISA payouts near £140m as industry warns against disrupting first-time buyer support

The Lifetime ISA delivered almost £140m in government bonuses last year, as industry figures...
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Mortgage borrowing rises as approvals edge higher in February

Mortgage borrowing and approvals both increased in February, although activity remains close to recent...

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