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Shawbrook Bank cuts second charge rates

Shawbrook Bank has reduced rates on its second charge mortgages by up to 0.80 percentage...

Brightstar Financial joins SmartrRefer panel

Brightstar Financial has become the latest distributor to be added to SmartrRefer, the new...

Second charge volumes up 12% in August

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has reported that second charge mortgage market recorded...

Complete FS latest firm to join SmartrRefer panel

Complete FS has been added to Legal & General Mortgage Club’s SmartrRefer panel, which...

Optimum Credit reaches £1bn mark in second charge lending

The UK’s largest second charge mortgage provider, Optimum Credit, has hit a total of...

Moneyfacts partners with Loans Warehouse for new loans service

Moneyfacts has appointed Loans Warehouse as its service provider for a new pre-approved loans...

Impact Specialist Finance added to SmartrRefer

Impact Specialist Finance has joined SmartrRefer, Legal & General Mortgage Club’s approved specialist distribution panel. Legal...

Maria Harris joins United Trust Bank board

Maria Harris, former director of intermediary lending at Atom Bank, has been appointed as...

Shawbrook helps client after shortfall in home improvement funds

Shawbrook Bank has completed a second charge mortgage within nine working days. Shawbrook was approached...

Monthly high for second charge volumes

The second charge mortgage market has reported that volumes were up by 23% in...

Together turns around bridging loan in three days

Specialist lender Together has come to the aid of a borrower who needed a...

UTB to use facial recognition for ID verification

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced an electronic ‘facial recognition’ ID verification service through...

Clever Lending duo take charge of growth plans

Clever Lending has appointed two new directors to lead the specialist distributor’s ambitious plans...

Home improvement loans boosting Fluent Money new business

Fluent for Advisers, the dedicated intermediary arm of Fluent Money, has revealed a significant...
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Stamp Duty

Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for stimulus, this time: abolish stamp duty. The logic feels intuitive -...

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

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Stamp Duty

Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for...
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LendInvest bolsters residential and BTL broker support with Glasgow team expansion

LendInvest has expanded its commercial support team with a particular focus on helping brokers...
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Hackathons test property data sharing in homebuying push

Proptech firms have tested how property data can be shared across the home-moving process...
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Foundation refreshes buy-to-let range with new products and rate cuts

Foundation has refreshed its buy-to-let mortgage range with new products and rate reductions across...

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