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Social media changing attitudes to home improvements

Brits are now staying in their property for nearly two decades, with 54% of...

Vida pulls second charge pilot

Vida Homeloans has withdrawn its second charge offering. It launched its second charge pilot in...

Connect for Intermediaries unveils unsecured lending panel

Connect for Intermediaries has introduced a new unsecured lending panel for business loans. The panel...

Together unveils its lowest ever second charge deal

Together has launched new lower-rate second charge loans for borrowers with cleaner credit profiles. With...

Prestige Finance unveils 3.69% secured loan

Prestige Finance has made cuts across its entire Prime product range and is offering...

Masthaven Bank to hold charity sleepout at the Oval

Colleagues at Masthaven Bank are supporting their chosen charity, the youth homelessness organisation Depaul...

Pepper Money to acquire second charge lender

Pepper Money has finalised the terms to acquire 100% of the second charge lender,...

Second charge volumes up 6%

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has reported that the second charge market saw...

Direct lender access is fine but don’t forget to look at whole seconds market

All forward thinking practitioners and stakeholders in our sector are committed to seeing a...

Together increases Charles Street securitisation to £1.25bn

Together Financial Services has refinanced its revolving Charles Street securitisation programme (CABS) by increasing the...

New deals and team members at Step One Finance

Step One Finance has announced new second charge products and an expanded sales team...

MPC maintains Bank Rate at 0.75%

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted unanimously to maintain the...

Another Sunny Loans TV ad banned

Elevate Credit International, which trades as Sunny Loans, has been told by the Advertising...

Fluent Money Group introduces specialist lending support service

Fluent Money Group has launched an enhanced specialist lending service to advisers, through Fluent...
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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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TAB promotes Bonner to chief risk officer

Specialist lender TAB has appointed Jack Bonner as chief risk officer as it continues...
Building Societies

Skipton BS lowers residential rates

Skipton Building Society is reducing rates across parts of its residential mortgage range from...
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AMI refreshes brand to reflect advice, mortgages and insurance focus

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries has launched a brand refresh intended to reflect its...
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IMLA guide explains why fixed mortgage rates can rise before Bank Rate moves

IMLA has published a report and five-minute guide to help advisers explain how swap...

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