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Castle Trust launches ‘Covid-19 level 3’ criteria

Castle Trust Bank has introduced new criteria which is says is in response to...

Roma Finance expands management team

Roma Finance has appointed Deborah Chaplain to the new position of head of customer...

Octane completes bridge-to-let in nine days

Octane Capital has completed a £2.6m bridge-to-let loan in nine days to a client...

Royal London expands Helping Hand service

Royal London is providing customers with free access to mental and physical wellbeing apps. The...

Iress and Pure Retirement team up for integration

Pure Retirement has partnered with Iress to create a streamlined sourcing-to-application journey for advisers...

Progressive BS joins Knowledge Bank

The Progressive Building Society has added its criteria to the Knowledge Bank platform. Knowledge Bank...

NatWest changes Core and Semi-Exclusive rates

NatWest is introducing rate decreases for products across its Core and Semi-Exclusive ranges for...

The Ipswich to pull 90% LTV 2.79% discount deal

The Ipswich Building Society is to withdraw its 90% LTV 2.79% discount mortgage for...

Landlords remortgaging to build a war chest

Mortgage for Business says 30% of property investors are now taking out a buy-to-let...

Landlords “taking brunt of the pandemic”

ARLA Propertymark has reported that the number of agents seeing rent rises hit an...

BoE: mortgage lending remains weak

The Bank of England has reported that the mortgage market remained weak in May...

The Mortgage Lender resumes physical valuations in Scotland & Wales

The Mortgage Lender is now able to offer physical valuations on buy-to-let applications for...

Lendlord produces investor deal analysis tool

Lendlord has unveiled an improved Property Deal Analyser as part of its portfolio management...

Click2Check signs up two new advisory firms to Credit Assess

Click2Check has announced two new advisory practice sign-ups for its Credit Assess product, its...

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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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Foundation backs complex Oxfordshire holiday-let purchase

Foundation has provided a £153,700 mortgage for an experienced landlord buying a newly developed...

Openwork adds Perenna and West One to mortgage panel

The Openwork Partnership has added Perenna and West One to its mortgage lending panel,...

Bank of England holds rate at 3.75% as energy risks cloud outlook

The Bank of England has kept Bank Rate at 3.75% amid concern that higher...

TML and Bluestone cut selected residential mortgage rates

The Mortgage Lender and Bluestone Mortgages have reduced selected residential mortgage rates by up...

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