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Eight-year lending high for the Co-op

The Co-operative Bank has reported mortgage net lending of £1.4bn via Platform, resulting in...

Secure Trust Bank provides £8m asset lending line

Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance has provided an £8m asset based lending facility to...

Record mortgage lending for the Yorkshire

The Yorkshire Building Society has reported increased profits and savings balances, while delivering record...

London remortgaging at 10-year high

UK Finance has revealed that there were 11,000 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

The Marsden partners with The Right Equity Release

The Marsden Building Society has teamed up with The Right Equity Release to launch...

Accord revises buy-to-let offering

Accord Buy To Let has cut the rates on selected two and five-year fixed...

Lending down but profits up at the Newcastle

The Newcastle Building Society has reported a rise in pre-tax profits for 2018 of £13.3m,...

Advisers worried about under-protection for the self-employed

MetLife research indicates that the rise of self-employment is helping drive sales of individual...

Mortgage balances up 6% at the Leeds

The Leeds Building Society has reported UK net lending of £1.0bn for 2018 and said...

Just Mortgages’ turnover increases by £8bn

Just Mortgages has reported that both its employed and self-employed divisions grew over the...

Investec funds £5.1m Leeds co-working venture

Investec Structured Property Finance has agreed to provide RBH Properties with a £5.1 million...

New dispute training course for letting agents

The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) and the National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) have...

Freedom Finance adds Open Banking to loan journey

Freedom Finance has launched Open Banking access to a panel of lenders for secured...

Barclays to make buy-to-let rate changes

Barclays is making changes across its buy-to-let range, including Reward. This follows its recent revisions...
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COMMENT

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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...

How brokers can secure better client outcomes in a volatile market

Experience has always counted in the mortgage market. Brokers who worked through the financial crisis, the Covid pandemic, the Liz Truss mini-Budget and cost-of-living...

Housing reform needs a thriving private rental sector, not just a thriving sales and purchase market

One of the most encouraging developments over recent weeks has been the renewed focus on improving the homebuying and selling process. The Government's plans to...

The economics of developing the next generation of advisers

Over the past couple of decades, I have worked alongside literally thousands of AR and DA firms, from businesses employing one or two advisers...

Is Andy Burnham the New Messiah or just Starmer with better eyebrows?

What a damning indictment of Labour that Andy Burnham appears to be strolling towards the leadership in what looks less like a contest and...

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