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Masthaven launches second charges with L&G Mortgage Club

Masthaven's second charge mortgage range will now be available through Legal & General Mortgage...

TMA Club adds lender to panel

TMA Club has added Chorley Building Society to its lender panel. TMA’s members will now...

Together makes senior management appointments

Together has announced that John Lowe will be joining its senior management team and...

Foundation Home Loans unveils portfolio BTL cashback product

Foundation Home Loans has launched a new cashback buy-to-let product for portfolio landlords. The deal...

Buy to Let Club expands panel

Buy to Let Club has welcomed new panel members The Family Building Society and...

Maeve Ward to leave Shawbrook Bank

Maeve Ward has become the latest senior figure to leave Shawbrook Bank. She has been...

Call to use ‘true cost’ to compare mortgages

Low-rate mortgage deals are frequently costing borrowers thousands of pounds more than deals with...

10-year low for city home affordability

Lloyds Bank’s Affordable Cities Review has found that home affordability across cities in the...

Kent Reliance added to Personal Touch panel

Kent Reliance has become the latest addition to Personal Touch’s lender panel.   The lender, which...

Exeter’s Impaired Lives proposition available to Paradigm Protect

Paradigm Protect now has access to the Exeter’s new Impaired Lives proposition. An impaired life...

‘Silver spenders’ supporting UK output by £7bn

New research from Legal & General Home Finance and the Centre for Economics and...

TML hires key account manager for Scotland

Hanif Hussain has been appointed by The Mortgage Lender (TML) as key account manager...

Sard to chair UK Finance mortgage board

UK Finance has announced the appointment of Miguel Sard, Santander’s managing director of mortgages,...

SimplyBiz Group launches referral solutions for advisers

The SimplyBiz Group has announced the launch of SimplyRefer, a range of third party...

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,...

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Barclays latest lender to cut rates

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

Landbay launches product transfer products

Buy-to-let lender, Landbay, has launched five new Product Transfer (PT) tracker products within its...

Brokers hesitant to recommend interest-only for FTBs, says Gen H

Nearly half of the UK’s top 100 first-time buyer brokerages wrote no interest-only business...

Coventry and Accord both cut BTL rates 

Coventry for Intermediaries and Accord Mortgages have both reduced rates across their buy-to-let ranges. Coventry’s...

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