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Annual house price growth rises to 3.2%

The Nationwide Building Society has reported a "surprising" increase in the annual rate of...

The Bucks BS launches new broker online portal

The Buckinghamshire Building Society has unveiled its Broker Online system. The mutual said the launch...

Santander UK reports “solid performance for 2017”

In 2017, Santander UK's net mortgage lending was £0.6 billion, although its net lending...

Butterfield Mortgages hires relationship manager

Butterfield Mortgages Ltd (BML) has appointed Radhika Madar has joined BML as relationship manager. She...

L&G appoints mortgage club director

Legal & General has appointed Kevin Roberts as director of the Legal & General...

Another strong year for Stonebridge Group

Stonebridge Group has reported a rise in business volumes in its core mortgage, life/protection and...

Key Partnerships hires BDM for Midlands

Gillian Roberts has been appointed as a business development manager (BDM) in the Midlands...

Accord reduces ICR for remortgaging landlords

Accord Buy To Let has reduced its minimum rental cover requirements for landlords wanting...

Together increases funding by £150m

Together has announced a further increase in its funding, with the issuance of £150m...

LSL Property Services buys Personal Touch

LSL Property Services plc (LSL) has acquired Personal Touch Financial Services Limited (PTFS) and...

AMI seeks new chairman

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has accepted the resignation of its chairman Pat...

Anti-money laundering firm moves into financial services

SmartSearch, an anti-money laundering (AML) firm, is expanding through the mortgage and financial services...

Scottish rental market ended 2017 with higher yields than UK

Your Move’s latest Scotland Rental Tracker has found that the Scottish rental market continued to...

Lloyds Banking Group a ‘top transgender inclusive employer’

Lloyds Banking Group has been named in the Stonewall inaugural Top Transgender Inclusive Employers...
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Politics

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...
Buy-to-let

Landbay launches product transfer products

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

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...
Buy-to-let

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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