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Landlords feeling more optimistic

The latest quarterly index from BM Solutions/BDRC Continental Landlords Panel has found that while all key...

Keystone offers deals to adverse credit landlords

Keystone Property Finance has revised its Classic Range, doubling the number of products available. The...

L&G and Co-op Bank partner for lifetime mortgages

Legal & General Home Finance (LGHF) has agreed a five-year deal with the Co-operative...

Sort Group opens new office

Sort Group, the parent of online conveyancing portal, SortRefer, has opened of its new...

Seconds growth to continue into 2018

Fluent for Advisers believes that the rise in second charge new business numbers recorded...

FSE Midlands details announced

The finalised seminar programme and exhibitor line-up for Financial Services Expo (FSE) Midlands has been...

Butterfield Mortgages appoints CEO

Butterfield Mortgages Ltd (BML) has appointed Alpa Bhakta as chief executive officer, having been...

Naismiths to monitor large Shawbrook-funded development

Naismiths has been appointed by Shawbrook Bank to monitor one of the bank’s largest development...

Foundation Home Loans introduces new BTL deals

Foundation Home Loans has unveiled a new set of products across its whole buy-to-let...

OSB unveils new expat mortgage range

OneSavings Bank (OSB) is revamping its expat mortgage range through its brands Kent Reliance...

‘Dramatic’ growth in rents on the cards?

Landbay has revealed that the 15 months since the Bank of England's Monetary Policy...

Sharp rise in five-year fix popularity

LMS has reported that 42% of remortgagors opted for a five-year fixed rate mortgage...

First-time buyers’ perception vs reality revealed

First-time buyers show a distinct lack of understanding around the house buying process and the...

FTBs not put off by potential Bank Rate rise

In the week the Bank of England will announce whether or not it plans...
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Homebuying

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,...

How small and medium-sized lenders can fix the origination headache

We are constantly told that to fix the mortgage journey, we need to rip everything out and start again. That unless a lender replaces its...

A new PM brings a new opportunity to rethink housing policy

Politics, as it seems to do in recent times, has moved at remarkable speed over the last couple of weeks. In what feels like...

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Training

The Right Mortgage appoints new head of academy

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has appointed Rebecca Egerton as head of The...
Homebuying

Stamp Duty could be holding back 300,000 home movers

Stamp Duty costs could be preventing more than 300,000 owner-occupied homes from coming to...
networks

National Friendly joins Primis panel

National Friendly's range of protection products are now available to advisers across the Primis...
Brokers

‘AI challenges intermediation,’ warns FCA

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today released its long-awaited Mills Review, which sets...

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