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TMA introduces GDPR Knowledge Base

TMA Club has unveiled a new resource for advisers that useful guides, FAQs and...

Prudential Financial Planning to provide protection advice for the Cambridge

Prudential Financial Planning has started offering financial advice to members of the Cambridge Building...

AToM becomes strategic partner for Shawbrook

All Types of Mortgages (AToM) has become latest firm to join Shawbrook’s Strategic Panel. Vic Jannels,...

Positive Lending moves into unsecured business loans

Positive Lending has announced its launch into unsecured business loans with rates starting from...

Double digit lending growth for Hinckley & Rugby

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has reported double digit growth in both its...

A third of property professionals set to expand portfolios

33% of investors are planning to increase their property portfolios, while 50% plan no...

60 adviser firms add online protection comparison service

60 intermediary businesses have now added a LifeQuote-powered protection comparison service to their website, allowing clients...

New intermediary range from Bank of Ireland UK

Bank of Ireland UK has made changes across its residential, First Start and buy-to-let...

Five new remortgage deals from Accord

Accord Mortgages has introduced five remortgage options for borrowers with a 25%, 20% or...

Criteria Hub adds Landbay to system

Criteria Hub has expanded its lender base with Landbay becoming the latest lender whose...

LMS: borrowers highly motivated to remortgage

LMS has revealed that the number of remortgages has risen 41% year-on-year from 28,400...

Creche tops gym for tenants

31% of tenants would pay more for onsite creche and childcare services than any...

Aldermore appoints head of commercial mortgages

Aldermore has appointed Caroline Luxmore as head of commercial mortgages. The position is newly created and...

Masthaven unveils ‘Bridging Plus’ larger loan proposition

Masthaven has launched Bridging Plus - new larger loans bridging products for loans over £750,000. Rates...

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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