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June rental rise ‘due to tenant fee ban’

55% of agents have reported landlords increasing rents in June, resulting in the number...

Aspen’s Finish & Exit used for Surrey development

A developer in Surrey has used Aspen Bridging’s Finish & Exit product to both...

Virgin Money expands range to include 15-year fixes

Virgin Money has launched a new range of long term fixed rate residential and...

The Coventry signs deal to improve its understanding of affordability

The Coventry Building Society is to use MBT Affordability from Mortgage Broker Tools to...

Nationwide: house prices remain subdued

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that July saw a 0.3% month-on-month rise in...

Roma Finance launches new five-year deal for property investors

Roma Finance is now offering a five-year mortgage to allow property investors to purchase...

Vida Homeloans unveils new Help to Buy range

Vida Homeloans has introduced a new range of Help to Buy specialist mortgage products...

Equity release market growth slowed down in Q2

The second quarter of the year saw sales of new drawdown mortgages grow while...

Intervention needed to keep homeownership dream alive

Santander Mortgages has warned that the dream of homeownership for middle-income Britain, individual buyers...

KR Group hires group data and business intelligence director

KR Group has appointed Charlie Moran as group data and business intelligence director. Moran's most recent...

Mortgage Brain appoints CTO

Mortgage Brain has appointed Ken Deegan as its chief technical officer (CTO). Deegan (pictured) has...

NatWest makes residential and buy-to-let rate changes

NatWest has introduced rate changes on selected core and semi-exclusive residential products and buy-to-let...

36% of brokers think execution-only will hit their business

23% of mortgage intermediaries expect that consumers will choose to bypass advice and arrange...

Keystone triples larger loan cashback

Specialist buy-to-let lender Keystone Property Finance has increased the cashback offering across its entire...
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COMMENT

Commonhold and Leasehold Reform

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

Why post-contract variation is becoming the mortgage market’s next battleground

For much of the past decade, mortgage technology investment has focused on origination and with good reason. Faster decisions in principle, automated affordability assessments,...

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