Loans

Equifinance agrees deal with Phoebus Software

Second charge mortgage lender Equifinance has signed into a five-year contract with Phoebus Software...

TMA Club partners with Together

TMA Club has added specialist lender, Together, to its lender panel. TMA members now...

First 4 Bridging moves into second charge sector

First 4 Bridging (F4B) has set up a dedicated second charge division. The new division,...

David Robinson to leave Shawbrook

David Robinson, sales & distribution director of Shawbrook’s residential mortgages team, is leaving the...

Natwest provides £100m senior debt facility to Evolution Money

Evolution Money has announced a new three-year, £100m senior debt facility with NatWest. The arrangement...

Together joins PRIMIS lender panel

PRIMIS Mortgage Network has added Together to its lender panel. Members of the network now have access...

First 4 Bridging becomes fully FCA regulated

First 4 Bridging (F4B) has reached fully regulated status with the Financial Conduct Authority...

The Money Group unveils new specialist lending brand

The Money Group has established a new brand, Specialist Money Limited. Jeff List has been appointed...

Brightstar launches education initiative

Brightstar Financial has introduced an education programme for brokers. The distributor will, over the coming...

New Masthaven website includes live criteria search

Masthaven Bank has launched a new website for brokers across its mortgage and short-term...

Masthaven now connected with SMG’s Lenderlink

Masthaven has launched its new Application Programming Interface (API) connection with master broker Specialist...

Regulation ‘behind success of second charge market’

Fluent for Advisers has argued that not enough credit is given to the role...

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...

COMMENT

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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Cost-of-living squeeze deepens income protection affordability gap

Rising household costs are making income protection more important for customers, but harder for...

Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for...

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...

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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