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Metro Bank creates 120 new roles

Metro Bank is opening a new 24/7 contact centre in central Ilford, creating 120...

Hope Capital expands to drive growth plans

Hope Capital has appointed a new member of staff and a consultant to help...

Large rise in new business for SortRefer

SortRefer has reported that that conveyancing instructions to its panel rose by 65% in January...

Many lower income households displaying signs of ‘debt distress’

A rise in consumer credit growth and the prospect of faster-than-expected interest rate rises...

CoreLogic acquires eTech Solutions

eTech Solutions Limited has announced the completion of its acquisition by CoreLogic, a global...

L&G introduces new trends data programme

Legal & General has announced the launch of its new 'Customer Risk and Opportunity...

Keystone added to Brilliant Solutions’ panel

Keystone Property Finance has joined the mortgage panel of Brilliant Solutions. Brilliant Solutions members now...

LendInvest unveils product transition process

LendInvest has launched a new process for development finance borrowers to move easily between...

Hampshire Trust cuts BTL/HMO five-year rate

Hampshire Trust Bank’s commercial mortgages team has reduced its remortgage buy-to-let and house in...

Half a million households at risk of negative equity

Computershare Loan Services has warned that a fall in the average UK house price of...

L&G unveils winners of Business Quality Awards

Legal & General has announced the winners of its seventh annual Business Quality Awards (BQAs)....

Reward Finance adds four to team

Reward Finance Group has appointed four new people, having doubled its headcount to 20 in...

House price falls in London, South East and North East

January 2018 saw house prices continue to fall in London, where prices have been...

Illegal money lender receives jail sentence

Dharam Prakash Gopee was sentenced on Friday to three and a half years imprisonment...

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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