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Retirement Advantage offers equity release lead generation workshops

Retirement Advantage has announced a series of lead generation training workshops to help advisers...

London house prices rose by 40% over past five years

Lloyds Bank has revealed that despite the recent slowdown in London house prices, the...

New auction product from Mint Bridging

Mint Bridging​ has has developed an auction product with rates from 0.45% per month. It...

The Leeds extends Parkrun backing

The Leeds Building Society has completed a successful first year with Parkrun UK after its...

£3.25m loan for Peterborough PDR development

Commercial finance consultancy Mantra Capital has arranged a £3.25m loan facility for a client through Arbuthnot...

West One makes key second charge criteria change

West One will now allow non buy-to-let income to be used towards the affordability...

Skipton Intermediaries unveils Help to Buy refinancing calculator

Skipton Intermediaries has launched what it has dubbed a 'Hexit' calculator to support brokers...

The Leeds revamps Welcome Mortgage offering

The Leeds Building Society has refreshed its range of Welcome Mortgages, which come with...

United Trust Bank enters first charge market

United Trust Bank (UTB) has moved into the first charge residential mortgage market with...

Nationwide’s net lending down £3 billion

The Nationwide Building Society has reported a sharp fall in its net mortgage lending,...

Citizens Advice urges government to tighten bill to protect renters

Citizens Advice has warned that a government pledge to ban tenants fees in England...

Retirement lending market set to surpass £142bn by 2027

Over 65s will have amassed a record £86bn of debt in 2018, up from...

Robert Sterling Surveyors appoints new senior surveyor

Robert Sterling Surveyors has appointed Stephen Lowe to the new position of senior surveyor. ...

The Swansea BS joins PMS and Sesame panels

PMS Mortgage Club and Sesame Network have added the Swansea Building Society to their...

COMMENT

Portfolio landlords reshape buy-to-let market

Portfolio landlords are becoming increasingly central to the buy-to-let market as investors take a more structured approach to property ownership. The market has seen a...

Supporting complex cases in a modern mortgage market

In today’s diverse mortgage landscape, brokers are working with a growing number of clients whose circumstances fall outside traditional lending models. From self-employed professionals...

Busting the myths that stop homeowners protecting their income

In my role at LifeSearch, I spend a lot of time talking to mortgage advisers, brokers, and, increasingly, customers directly. One thing comes up time...

The 4.3 million borrowers your pipeline is probably missing

There are 4.3 million self-employed workers in the UK and nearly one in five self-employed workers plans to buy a property in the next...

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

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Family Building Society cuts minimum property value to £75k

Family Building Society has lowered its minimum property value from £120,000 to £75,000 across...

360 Lifecycle adds Checkmyfile credit reporting link

360 Lifecycle has partnered with Checkmyfile to give advisers access to clients’ multi-agency credit...

Barclays cuts rates and launches sub-4% Premier tracker

Barclays will cut selected mortgage rates from Thursday 30 April and launch a Premier...

Millennials still locked out of homeownership

Only 5% of millennials have reached the life milestones they expected as teenagers, according...

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