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North West is home to fastest rising rents in the UK

Your Move's England & Wales Buy to Let Index has found that most areas...

Housing market confidence at lowest level in five years

Halifax has reported that confidence in UK house prices has fallen to its lowest level...

SMEs split over hard or soft Brexit

The latest SME Confidence Tracker from business funder Bibby Financial Services has looked at...

The Right Mortgage partners with CI Expert

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network is to provide its members with discounted access...

Metro Bank reduces BTL and residential rates

Metro Bank has made changes to both its residential and buy-to-let product ranges. Rates for...

Demand for rental accommodation up 10% month on month

ARLA Propertymark (Association of Residential Letting Agents) has reported that, after several months of...

Octane Capital appoints senior BDM

Liam Lawlor has joined Octane Capital as a senior business development manager (BDM). Lawlor (pictured)...

New fixed rates from Paragon

Paragon has added four two-year fixed Portfolio products to its buy-to-let range. Rates start...

TSB increases remortgage fixed rates

TSB has increased fixed rates by up to 0.20 percentage points on a number...

Mortgage costs continue to fall

The cost of mortgages has continued to fall with new data from Mortgage Brain...

Financial apathy creating ‘mental health time bomb’

Digital banking service B’s independent research shows 13% of people in the UK have...

Call for reform to leasehold law

50 years since the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 was passed into law on 28 October, Leasehold Solutions...

Paymentshield hails record month

Paymentshield has claimed that it had its most successful month ever in September. The company’s...

The Skipton unveils three-year fixes

The Skipton Building Society is to launch a new range of intermediary-only three-year fixed...

COMMENT

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...

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...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

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Busting the myths that stop homeowners protecting their income

In my role at LifeSearch, I spend a lot of time talking to mortgage...

First-time buyers turning to side hustles to bridge deposit gap

Almost half of aspiring first-time buyers are using secondary income streams to help fund...

Vida cuts residential rates and loosens criteria for self-employed and contractor borrowers

Vida has reduced selected residential mortgage rates by up to 106 basis points and...

Iress adds AI underwriting tool to The Exchange in protection push

Iress has struck a deal with The Interesting Life Company to offer an AI-powered...

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