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The Monmouthshire extends geographical lending area

The Monmouthshire Building Society is expanding its geographical lending area, in which residential mortgage...

Platform cuts fixed rates and changes criteria

Platform cut has rates on selected 90% LTV mortgages across two, three and five-year...

Rap group call out publication for using their image in place of ‘gang’

Dropcap the popularization of the “ideal measure” has led to advice such as “Increase...

Average deposit doubles in a decade to £33,339

The number of first-time buyers is estimated to have totalled 359,000 in 2017, while those...

Mint Bridging completes loan in record time

Mint Bridging has completed on a loan in five days.  The original lender had pulled out...

The Right Mortgage selects protection case management service

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has introduced LifeQuote’s outsourced protection case management service...

Royal London unveils enhanced children’s CIC

Royal London has introduced flexible options and enhancements to its critical illness cover (CIC)....

Melania Trump’s Mail Suit Suggests Desire To Monetise First Lady Role

Dropcap the popularization of the “ideal measure” has led to advice such as “Increase...

Investec rebrands Amicus Commercial Finance

Investec Bank has rebranded Amicus Commercial Finance as Investec Capital Solutions, which will provide...

Insurance firm boss fined £470k

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published Decision Notices in respect of One Call...

Vantage Finance acquired by Enra Group 

Enra Group has announced the acquisition of master broker Vantage Finance. The Vantage operation will...

New First Start rates from Bank of Ireland UK

Bank of Ireland UK has just launched a new product range with First Start...

The Mansfield unveils Family Buy to Let deal at 100% ICR

The Mansfield Building Society has launched a new Family Buy to Let mortgage that enables...

This Secret Room In Mount Rushmore Is Having A Moment

Intro text we refine our methods of responsive web design, we’ve increasingly focused on...
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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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