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Equity release market breaks £3bn barrier

Key Retirement has reported that retired homeowners released over £3 billion of property wealth...

Aldermore increases property development loan limit

Aldermore Bank has raised its maximum property development loan size from £10 million to...

Black Book Finance expands commercial finance team

Black Book Finance has appointed Darren Peiris to the position of commercial finance executive.  Peiris...

Extreme Heat Waves Will Change How We Live. We’re Not Ready

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

Metro Bank cuts residential and buy-to-let rates

Metro Bank has reduced rates across its five-year fixed residential and buy-to-let product ranges, as...

Cabinet reshuffle divides opinion

There has been a mixed industry response to the Cabinet reshuffle. Short term lender Kuflink Bridging...

Knowledge Bank provides evidence of criteria research

Knowledge Bank has improved its ‘evidence of research’ facility to give brokers the tools...

Vida Homeloans added to PTFS panel

Vida Homeloans has been appointed to Personal Touch Financial Services’ lender panel to offer...

New intermediary-only deals from the Skipton

Skipton Intermediaries has unveiled a new range of intermediary-only fixed rate residential and buy-to-let...

Golden Charter teams up with the Right Mortgage & Protection Network

Funeral plan provider Golden Charter has partnered with the Right Mortgage & Protection Network...

Accord: landlords resilient in face of regulation

57% of Accord Mortgages' buy-to-let applications received in 2017 were from those affected by...

Bibby Financial Services appoints specialist director

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Kash Ahmad as UK specialist director as it...

SimplyBiz Group offers exclusive access to HUB Referral Solutions

The SimplyBiz Group has teamed up with Just Group to offer its members exclusive...

West One Loans unveils second charge buy-to-let range

West One Loans is launching a range of second charge buy-to-let products tomorrow (10...

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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LiveMore appoints Charles Roe as industry adviser

Specialist lender LiveMore has appointed Charles Roe as industry adviser. Roe joins LiveMore with a...

Squirrel Financial Planning grows to seven in first year

Squirrel Financial Planning has grown from a one-person mortgage and financial planning business to...

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...

Mortgage repayments set to rise for 5m households by 2028

More than five million households are projected to see their mortgage repayments increase by...

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