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ONS: house prices up 1.6% month on month

The latest house price index from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed an...

Financial and emotional barriers to downsizing

Bower Retirement 's latest Adviser Tracker research has found that its specialist advisers estimate...

Magellan Homeloans announces new criteria

Magellan Homeloans has introducednew criteria across both Complex Prime and Credit Repair product ranges. The...

Metro Bank enters consumer buy-to-let market

Metro Bank is now accepting consumer buy-to-let buy-to-let applications. The lender says its new product...

Connect for Intermediaries adds West One Loans to bridging panel

Connect for Intermediaries has added West One Loans to its panel of bridging lenders....

Andrew Haldane reappointed to MPC

The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has reappointed Andrew Haldane, the...

L&C calls for annual protection statements

L&C Mortgages has added its voice to the call for the protection industry to...

Gary Bailey to leave Together after two decades

Together has announced that its sales director Gary Bailey is leaving the business, after...

Newcastle Intermediaries offers deals to North East FTBs

Newcastle Intermediaries has unveiled an exclusive range of fixed rate mortgages aimed at helping...

Accord tweaks residential range

Accord Mortgages has made changes its residential mortgages. The intermediary-only lender, which is part of...

The Mansfield launches affordability calculator

The Mansfield Building Society has introduced a new, web-enabled affordability calculator. The new affordability calculator,...

Vida unveils expat buy-to-let offering

Vida Homeloans is introducing a new 'Vida Expat' buy-to-let mortgage range. The lender says its...

Octane Capital hires director of commercial real estate finance

Octane Capital has recruited Matthew Bird as its new director of commercial real estate...

Lending up at Earl Shilton Building Society

The Earl Shilton Building Society has reported overall growth of 2.99%, up from 2.27%...

COMMENT

Kevin Tunnicliffe on ending the race to the bottom

This was always going to be a tricky interview. I’ve known Kevin Tunnicliffe, chief executive officer of Sort Group, which includes Sort Refer, for...

Beyond the Robo-Adviser: why the future of mortgages is ‘Human Plus’

The fintech industry is obsessing over a binary choice: the traditional human broker or the fully automated 'robo-adviser'. But as we navigate the complexities...

Ceasefire boosts sentiment more than mortgage market

What goes up must come down, but for mortgage rates the drop will be notably more gradual than the sharp increase triggered by the...

A surge today, but what comes next for advisers and conveyancing?

March has provided a very clear example of how quickly this market can move when lenders feel the need to take action, with widespread...

Technology adapts so you don’t have to

20 years ago, many brokerages looked and operated in very similar ways. Typically small, local business, many firms focused solely on standard residential mortgage...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts limited company buy-to-let rates for brokers

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced selected limited company buy-to-let rates by up to 20...

Paragon Bank introduces limited edition 60% LTV buy-to-let products

Paragon Bank has expanded its buy-to-let range with a new tranche of 60% loan-to-value...

TwentyCi hires Nick Huntley to lead sales at TwentyEA and TwentyConvey

TwentyCi has appointed Nick Huntley as sales director for TwentyEA and TwentyConvey as the...

HSBC cuts mortgage rates by up to 34bps across core ranges

HSBC UK has reduced mortgage rates across its product range, with cuts of up...

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