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LendInvest reveals buy-to-let legal panel

LendInvest has named firms JMW Solicitors LLP and Lightfoots Solicitors on its first official...

West Brom reports increased lending to first time buyers

The West Brom Building Society reported further growth in residential mortgage lending and pre-tax...

New deals from Newcastle Intermediaries

Newcastle Intermediaries is reducing rates on a number of its residential mortgages by up...

FCA proposes cap on rent-to-own lending

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced new proposals designed to protect millions of...

House prices down 0.2% month-on-month

The nationwide Building society has reported that annual house price growth in the UK...

SortRefer finalises sales team personnel

SortRefer has appointed Jo Prendergast as regional account manager for the south west. She joins...

Royal London reveals 2017 protection claim statistics

Royal London has reported that it paid out over £517m in protection claims last...

New max 90% LTV Help to Buy remortgage from Nationwide

The Nationwide Building Society has increased the maximum loan to value (LTV) from 80...

New 50% LTV buy-to-let deals from TMW

The Mortgage Works (TMW) is launching a range of new 50% loan to value (LTV)...

The Melton joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added the Melton Building Society, and its subsidiary, MBS Lending,...

Fewer landlords remortgaging for portfolio expansion

The proportion of landlords remortgaging is coming close to record levels, according to Paragon's...

UK expats being stung by “punitive” transaction costs

It has been claimed that UK expats acquiring buy-to-let property back home are typically...

RBS’s CFO quits

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) has announced that Ewen Stevenson has resigned...

Aldermore funds recruitment firm’s growth

Yorkshire based Mynt Recruitment has agreed a £825,000 invoice finance funding package with Aldermore,...
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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...

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Swap rates fall but funding risks remain, warns Moneyfacts

In a week that saw more than 20 lenders reduce their fixed mortgage rates,...
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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...
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L&G launches later life lending campaign

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