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More 2 Life offers joint borrower Capital Choice Plan feature

More 2 Life has added an additional feature to its Capital Choice Plan for joint...

First-time buyers fixing for longer

Accord Mortgages has reported that first-time buyers are fixing their mortgage for longer than...

New deals from the Skipton BS

The Skipton Building Society has revised rates across a number of mortgage products with...

Upton becomes Castle Trust mortgages MD as Wyles departs

Castle Trust has announced the promotion of Alex Upton to managing director of the...

TMA Club adds the Bath BS to its lender panel

TMA Club has expanded its lender panel with the addition of the Bath Building...

Rebrand for the Hanley Economic

The Hanley Economic Building Society has refreshed its branding after a consultation period amongst members, intermediaries,...

Mint Bridging hires credit manager

Bridging lender Mint Bridging has appointed Peter Howarth to the position of credit manager. He previously...

Growth in number of small deposit mortgages

E.surv has reported a positive start to 2018 for the UK mortgage market, with...

Fleet Mortgages hires Midlands BDM

Fleet Mortgages has announced the appointment of a new business development manager (BDM) covering...

Foundation Home Loans adds to sales team

Foundation Home Loans has expanded its senior sales team with the appointment of Grant...

Alexander Hall to adopt 360 Lifecycle solution

Alexander Hall has signed a five-year deal to utilise the full 360 Lifecycle practice...

SIFA chairman to retire

SIFA, part of The SimplyBiz Group, has announced that its chairman, Ian Muirhead, will...

Healthy behaviour should inform premium calculations

53% of consumers want insurers to take their healthy behaviour such as diet or...

Collapse in home ownership amongst the young

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has found that today’s young adults are significantly...

COMMENT

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...

Build, baby, build? Well we will need to fund more than the usual suspects

There was a noticeable sense of optimism at UKREiiF this year. That may sound surprising given the economic headwinds of recent years, but the...

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market riding high

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market has created real value for customers – there’s no excuse to ignore it. When a UK borrower reaches 55,...

Latest news

Foundation reduces BTL rates by up to 0.25%

Foundation, the intermediary-only specialist lender, has reduced rates across its buy-to-let range by up...

Hodge Bank partners with Mortgage Broker Tools

The partnership means Mortgage Broker Tools’ broker members can now access Hodge’s specialist mortgage...

Cambridge BS opens up 98% LTV to all brokers

The Cambridge Building Society is making its 98% LTV first-time-buyer product available to all...

Barclays latest lender to cut rates

Barclays is the latest lender to lower its mortgage rates, reducing selected residential products...

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