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Coventry for Intermediaries lowers 10-year rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced rates across its range of 10-year fixed residential mortgages. Rates...

Paymentshield unveils Fantasy Football

Paymentshield has launched a Fantasy Football competition for mortgage brokers, to run alongside the...

TMA supporting Take Five fraud prevention campaign

TMA Club has announced the launch of it is new anti-fraud webpage. In conjunction...

LendInvest bolsters buy-to-let team

LendInvest has grown its buy-to-let team with a number of in-house and field based hires. The...

Limited company structures becoming increasingly popular

38% of landlords will use limited companies to buy properties over the next year...

Metro Bank in widespread range refresh

Metro Bank has refreshed rates across its residential, buy-to-let and large loan ranges. In its...

The Leeds’ Welcome mortgage now includes shared ownership

The Leeds Building Society has extended availability of its Welcome mortgage to include shared ownership mortgages. The...

The Ipswich launches later life mortgage range

The Ipswich Building Society has unveiled a mortgage range for those borrowing into later...

TML apprentice graduates to BDM

Former apprentice Charlie Stack has been appointed as business development manager (BDM) at The...

Masthaven Bank reaches 10,000th savings customer

Masthaven Bank has announced it has reached over 10,000 customers in its savings division,...

NatWest range changes include new semi-exclusives

NatWest is reintroducing two-year semi-exclusive deals for both purchases and remortgages. There are also rate...

Fleet recruits North East BDM

Fleet Mortgages has appointed a new business development manager (BDM) covering the North East. ...

Paradigm partners with Hanley Intermediaries

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced a new partnership with Hanley Intermediaries, the intermediary lending...

Rental growth outside London remains positive although pace slows

Landbay's latest Rental Index has revealed that rental growth in England (excluding London) fell...

COMMENT

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...

Approvals hit a 2.5-year low: When broker value gets proven – or missed

Net mortgage approvals dropped to 56,200 in May – the lowest since December 2023 - down from 66,000 the month before. Net borrowing fell from...

Removing friction from the homebuying journey

One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...

Latest news

Swap rates fall but funding risks remain, warns Moneyfacts

In a week that saw more than 20 lenders reduce their fixed mortgage rates,...

Growing calls for government to overhaul Stamp Duty for FTBs

Mortgage industry figures are urging the government to review stamp duty for first-time buyers...

L&G launches later life lending campaign

L&G has launched a later life lending campaign featuring short documentary-style films highlighting the...

West Brom reduces rates by up to 0.18%

West Brom Building Society has reduced rates across its two-year fixed purchase mortgage range,...

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