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Mint Bridging creates separate development and bridging teams

Mint Bridging has separated out its development lending from its traditional bridging lending. It has...

Spicerhaart Part Exchange and Assisted Move hires Kent BDM

Spicerhaart Part Exchange and Assisted Move has appointed Tracey Gee as its new business...

Kensington appoints chief operating officer

Kensington Mortgages has recruited Mark Foulsham as its new chief operating officer. He will join...

Accord cuts rates on 25 buy-to-let deals

Accord Buy To Let is cutting rates on over one-third of its product range. 25...

1st Stop Group passes £200m milestone

Specialist consumer lender 1st Stop Group has passed £200 million of outstanding loans. The business is a...

CBRE joins the ASTL

CBRE Limited has become an associate member of the Association of Short Term Lenders...

The Mansfield introduces expat consumer BTL to offering

The Mansfield Building Society has launched two new expat consumer buy-to-let products for people...

Keystone cuts three and five-year rates

Keystone Property Finance has cut its three and five-year fixed rates in the standard...

More people want financial advice, says Openwork

A UK-wide study for Openwork has found that there is a "growing untapped demand...

New specialist finance provider appoints VAS Group

Arbuthnot Specialist Finance Limited (ASFL) has appointed VAS Group to manage all its valuations...

The Vernon joins L&G Mortgage Club panel

The Vernon Building Society has joined up with Legal & General Mortgage Club to...

Clever Lending unveils new broker portal

Clever Lending has launched a new online portal to improve the way brokers manage...

TSB cuts purchase and remortgage rates

TSB Bank has reduced interest rates by up to 0.10 percentage points on mortgages...

Mark Sismey-Durrant to advise Oblix Capital

Oblix Capital has appointed Mark Sismey-Durrant as an independent adviser to its board.  His previous...

COMMENT

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,...

Will we look back at Q2 as the most stable quarter of 2026?

The first half of 2026 has reminded us how quickly sentiment can change within the mortgage and housing markets. After a fairly stable and promising...

A steadier second half of 2026 in sight?

The first half of 2026 has been a reminder that the mortgage market does not operate in isolation. While domestic economic conditions have remained...

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Step One Finance prepares new broker originations platform

Step One Finance is to launch an intermediary originations platform intended to simplify second...

Healey takes Treasury as Burnham puts housing among early priorities with Rayner appointment

John Healey was appointed chancellor of the exchequer last night as new prime minister...

Toni Smith on the human factor and the fourth emergency service

After nearly four decades in financial services, Sesame Network distribution director Toni Smith still...

Newcastle widens mortgage support scheme with 95% LTV option

Newcastle for Intermediaries has relaunched its Joint Mortgage Sole Proprietor (JMSP) range with broader...

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