Mortgages

Newcastle Intermediaries refreshes fees-assisted offering

Newcastle Intermediaries has made changes to a range of its fee assisted two-year fixed...

Trussle secures £13.6m in new funding round

Online mortgage broker Trussle has secured £13.6million in financing in its Series B funding round. Along...

Sesame Bankhall Group appoints COO

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has appointed Martin Schultheiss to the newly created role of...

Brightstar to host specialist lending workshops

Brightstar Financial is joining forces with a number of lenders to launch a series...

Landlords becoming increasingly cautious

Shawbrook Bank says its latest research shows that almost half of landlords in the...

Intrinsic joins Sainsbury’s Bank broker panel

Sainsbury’s Bank has announced that Intrinsic has become its latest broker partner. The firm joins a...

Paradigm & Foundation Home Loans in open banking pilot

Foundation Home Loans has partnered with Paradigm Mortgage Services to offer its residential products...

Record high for £1m house sales

The number of properties sold for more than a million pounds in Great Britain...

Clever Lending added to Family BS panel

Clever Lending has been selected by the Family Building Society as a packager for...

SimplyBiz Group reveals Advice Show line up

SimplyBiz Group is to host a mortgage, general insurance and protection focussed online broadcast of...

Coventry for Intermediaries makes buy-to-let fixed rate cuts

Coventry for Intermediaries has cut rates across its two, three and five-year fixed buy-to-let...

How to avoid getting tangled up in knots

I was interested to read that the Loughborough Building Society has decided to do...

HMOs providing highest average rental yields

Landlords running portfolios comprising houses in multiple occupation (HMO) and multi-unit freehold blocks (MUFB)...

FCA calls for more help for ‘mortgage prisoners’

In its newly published interim report into the mortgage market, the Financial Conduct Authority...

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AUTUMN BUDGET: Further damage to buy-to-let investors

Yesterday’s Budget represented yet another decisive step in the dismantling of the traditional buy-to-let sector. The Government has chosen to tighten the tax screw on...

AUTUMN BUDGET: Much ado about nothing… Thank goodness

The Keystone Cops were out in force yesterday in the Commons, as exemplified by the OBR’s involuntarily (we suppose) leaking of the Budget before...

AUTUMN BUDGET: Still ducking the housing question

The Chancellor set out to fix an economy that is not working well enough for working people, talking about high bills, squeezed living standards...

AUTUMN BUDGET: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes… NOT

After the delay of the Budget to 26 November and all the leaks, there was an expectation of significant change. However, it appears to be...

AUTUMN BUDGET: Affordability remains the key to activity

After all the speculation, this Budget offered little for the housing market. No stamp duty reform, no meaningful support for first-time buyers and a new...

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OBR forecasts stamp duty burden to almost double by early 2030s

Stamp duty receipts on homes bought in England and Northern Ireland are projected to...

VAS launches Christmas charity drive to support Teesside families

Middlesbrough-based valuation panel VAS has launched its 2025 Christmas Charity Campaign, continuing a now-established...

Misconceptions blamed for low income protection take-up among UK workers

Shepherds Friendly has warned that misconceptions about income protection may be a central reason...

GB Bank bolsters leadership as bridging push gathers pace

GB Bank has strengthened its senior ranks with a trio of internal promotions as...

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