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Paradigm & Foundation Home Loans in open banking pilot

Foundation Home Loans has partnered with Paradigm Mortgage Services to offer its residential products...

Easing seen in annual house price growth

Halifax has reported that house prices in the last three months to April were...

Record high for £1m house sales

The number of properties sold for more than a million pounds in Great Britain...

Clever Lending added to Family BS panel

Clever Lending has been selected by the Family Building Society as a packager for...

SimplyBiz Group reveals Advice Show line up

SimplyBiz Group is to host a mortgage, general insurance and protection focussed online broadcast of...

Coventry for Intermediaries makes buy-to-let fixed rate cuts

Coventry for Intermediaries has cut rates across its two, three and five-year fixed buy-to-let...

HMOs providing highest average rental yields

Landlords running portfolios comprising houses in multiple occupation (HMO) and multi-unit freehold blocks (MUFB)...

Average rents outside London still rising

The latest Landbay Rental Index has revealed that the average rent for a property in England...

Home renovation mishaps for one in seven adults

14% of adults in the UK have faced a home improvement mishap within the last...

FCA calls for more help for ‘mortgage prisoners’

In its newly published interim report into the mortgage market, the Financial Conduct Authority...

Aldermore backs refrigeration firm in £2m deal

Aldermore has provided a £2m bulk invoice discounting facility to Capital Cooling Refrigeration Limited,...

Thistle Finance partners with currency firm

Packager Thistle Finance has partnered with global currency firm Mercury FX to offer UK...

Castle Trust appoints managing director for mortgages

Barry Searle, Castle Trust’s chief operating officer (COO), is to become its new managing director...

Completions up 20% at PMS and Sesame

PMS Mortgage Club and Sesame Network have reported that combined mortgage completions increased by...
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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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