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Nationwide to cut maximum LTVs

The Nationwide Building Society is lowering the maximum loan to value (LTV) amount that...

Shawbrook grows product & proposition team

Bradley McMillan has joined Shawbrook Bank's property finance division as senior product development and...

Stabilisation in ESIS numbers

Mortgage Brain has reported that overall ESIS numbers have stabilised at pre-pandemic levels, with...

LendInvest expands distribution with Sesame/PMS deal

LendInvest has joined Sesame and PMS’s lender panel. The network and mortgage club’s member firms...

Loans Warehouse in secure data sharing partnership

Loans Warehouse has partnered with Credit Kudos as its Open Banking provider, to enable...

MCI Club provides Burrow integration with Knowledge Bank

MCI Club has integrated its digital broker platform Burrow into Knowledge Bank’s API in...

Avamore completes double deal for broker and borrower

Bridging lender Avamore has completed two bridging loans in North London, totalling £690,068, with...

BFS provides £5m funding line to wholesale food provider

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has provided a £5m funding facility to Hider Food Imports...

Accord moves back into 90% LTV with FTB exclusives

Accord Mortgages is to offer 90% loan to value (LTV) products from 9am on...

Brilliant Solutions surveys broker sentiment

Brilliant Solutions has conducted research into current mortgage broker sentiment. Brokers revealed their biggest perceived challenges as well whether...

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries resumes shared ownership offering

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries has re introduced its shared ownership residential product range, which is...

Covid-19: SMEs expect to borrow nearly £50bn to recover

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK expect to borrow £48.3 billion to support...

Lightfoots launches AI facial recognition system

Lightfoots LLP is claiming that it will be the first UK legal firm to...

Octane Capital appoints BDMs

Octane Capital has revealed that Samantha Emery and Bethan Jones have been appointed as...

COMMENT

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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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...

StrideUp raises property finance limit and expands HMO criteria

StrideUp has increased the maximum financing available through its buy-to-let purchase plan to £2.5...

OneDome shortlisted for three business awards

OneDome has been named a finalist in three categories at the Lloyds British Business...

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