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Record mortgage lending for the Mansfield

The Mansfield Building Society has reported its highest ever volume of monthly applications in...

OSB reveals plans for PRA portfolio landlord changes

OneSavings Bank (OSB) has announced its new lending criteria for portfolio landlords to help...

Pepper Homeloans extends distribution network

Pepper Homeloans has added Paradigm Mortgage Club to its list of distribution partners. Paradigm will...

Attitudes to seconds are changing – slowly

Fluent Money has claimed it is "still too easy to disregard secured loans" when...

The Leeds makes donation to Alice House Hospice

The Leeds Building Society Charitable Foundation has donated £500 to a Hartlepool hospice which...

ASTL member lending tops £3bn

The value of bridging loans written by members of the Association of Short Term...

Brightstar opens Wellness Room

Brightstar has announced the official opening of its 'Wellbeing Room' as part of the...

Second charge market continues to grow

June saw the second charge mortgage market have its fourth consecutive month of growth,...

Asset finance up 16%

Latest figures from the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that asset finance new...

Asda launches personal loans brand

Asda Money has launched Asda Personal Loans with Freedom Finance, online and via telephone.  The offering...

L&G Mortgage Club outlines autumn event schedule

Legal & General Mortgage Club has published its calendar of Autumn events that focus...

Skipton makes portfolio lending changes

The Skipton Building Society has announced two key changes to its existing buy-to-let lending...

LendInvest hires its first BDM for Southern England

LendInvest has appointed Andy Virgo as its first business development manager (BDM) for the...

Skipton International unveils BTL guide for renting to millennials

Skipton International has launched a new guide for buy-to-let investors looking at renting to...

COMMENT

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

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Rent growth slows as house prices edge higher, with Middle East tensions clouding outlook

Private rent inflation eased again in March while UK house prices rose modestly in...

Gen H expands broker sales team with three BDM hires and internal promotion

Gen H has expanded its broker sales team with three new business development managers...

Detached homes dominate new lifetime mortgage lending in early 2026

Owners of detached properties accounted for more than four in 10 new lifetime mortgages...

Brokers invited to webinar on boosting landlord income strategies

Brokers are being offered an opportunity to learn how to help landlords accelerate income...

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