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Stafford Railway joins mortgage club panel

SimplyBiz Mortgages has announced that the Stafford Railway Building Society (Stafford Railway) has joined...

UTB campaign seeks to help mortgage brokers write more business

United Trust Bank (UTB) has launched its #BrokerSummerSupportPackage campaign. Over the coming weeks the bank...

MBE confirms October date for physical London event

Mortgage Business Expo has confirmed that it will return to London as planned, following...

Secure Trust Bank achieves £5bn in invoice finance

The commercial finance arm of Secure Trust Bank has surpassed £5bn of invoices funded...

Debt charities call for action over IVA providers

The Money Advice Trust and StepChange Debt Charity say that changes proposed by the...

Allica Bank appoints new business relationship manager

Allica Bank has announced the internal appointment of Jonathan Prince as business relationship manager...

Coventry for intermediaries unveils new customer retention broker guide

Coventry for intermediaries has launched The Mortgage Broker’s Guide to Customer Retention. The new...

Canada Life cuts Capital Select and Lifetime Options rates

Canada Life has made rate reductions to all its Capital Select Options of between...

New CEO for Ceta Insurance parent

Digital insurance distributor ATEC Group, which trades under the brand names of Ceta Insurance,...

Smartr365 speeds up process for eConveyancer

Mortgage technology platform Smartr365 has announced the first major development under its ‘You Ask,...

Zephyr Homeloans expands distribution

Zephyr Homeloans has joined Openwork’s mortgage panel. Openwork’s community of more than 4,000 advisers and...

32% rise in monthly residential property transactions

HMRC has stated that its provisional seasonally adjusted estimate of UK residential property transactions...

Pepper extends ‘light’ offering to BTL following product relaunch

Pepper Money has relaunched its buy-to-let purchase mortgages for individual investors and limited companies. The...

Newcastle United’s foundation partners with Newcastle Building Society

The Newcastle Building Society has agreed to become a partner with Newcastle United's foundation. The...

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Mortgage maturity: A golden opportunity for advisers

Around 1.8 million fixed-rate mortgage deals are due to come to an end in 2026, adding to the 1.6 million mortgages that already matured...

Rates are moving and regulation is evolving

Many lenders are having to increase their rates, and that trend looks set to continue over the coming week. For clients whose current deal...

Building tomorrow’s mortgage market: AI built on trust, governance and confidence

The government's Financial Services AI Adoption Plan, led by Harriet Rees, group chief information officer at Starling Bank, and Dr Rohit Dhawan, group director...

The protection prompt: what AI still needs to get right

The Mills Review has prompted plenty of discussion across the mortgage industry. While much of the focus has been on the finding that a...

Why second charges are helping Right to Buy borrowers do more with their home

For many people, Right to Buy is still one of the most accessible ways to become a homeowner and over the last five years,...

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Leeds lending falls amid technology investment

Leeds Building Society completed £2bn of gross mortgage lending during the first half of...

Foundation revives buy-to-let products and cuts holiday let rates

Foundation Home Loans has refreshed its buy-to-let mortgage range, bringing back several products, adding...

UK residential property transactions edge higher in June

UK residential property transactions rose modestly in June, suggesting that underlying market activity is...

Buyers turn to 1.5 million homes rejected by mainstream lenders

About 1.5 million homes across Britain may fall outside mainstream mortgage criteria, according to...

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