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Barclays Mortgages cuts fixed rates

Barclays Mortgages has reduced rates on some of its most popular residential mortgage deals. The...

Tenant demand at lowest level in five years

BM Solutions' latest quarterly index has revealed that landlord confidence ended 2017 low but relatively...

Two-year fixes bounce back in popularity

LMS has reported that demand for two-year fixed deals increased for the first time...

Together bridges funding gap in 48 hours

Together and Crystal Specialist Finance have provided a short-term loan of £102,600 when the...

Trussle introduces mortgage monitoring service

Online broker Trussle is offering a mortgage monitoring service to all UK homeowners. The free service continually...

Kensington and New Street Mortgages launch in Scotland

Kensington and New Street Mortgages are launching in Scotland.  Initially this will be a limited...

InterBay Commercial revamps product offering

InterBay Commercial has announced rate changes across the majority of its long term loan...

Gross mortgage lending up 1.2% year-on-year

UK Finance has reported that gross mortgage lending in December 2017 is estimated to...

Record high for rental stock

ARLA Propertymark has revealed that in December, the number of properties letting agents managed...

The Monmouthshire celebrates 149th birthday

The Monmouthshire Building Society is celebrating its 149th anniversary in January. Founded by Newport...

Ambitious growth plans for retirement specialist

Age Partnership has revealed further expansion plans for 2018, which include doubling its office...

TSB cuts two & five-year fixed rate mortgages

TSB has reduced selected two-year and five-year fixed rates by up to 0.20 percentage...

Group finance director to leave Close Brothers

Jonathan Howell is to leave Close Brothers Group after 10 years as group finance...

Computershare Loan Services makes charity donations

Computershare is to support the work of both The Money Charity and the Institute...

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

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...

UTB cuts rates by 1% and launches 95% LTV

United Trust Bank (UTB) Mortgages has reduced rates by up to 1% and launched...

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