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End of the Mortgage Trust brand

Paragon has merged its Mortgage Trust and Paragon Mortgages buy-to-let product range under a...

Large rise in new property listings

New property listings were up by 20.2% in September compared to August, according to...

Total property wealth hits record high

Key Retirement has found that retired homeowners have earned £3,500 a month from their...

Remortgagors locking into record low rates

LMS has reported that the number of remortgagors increased by 11% in August to...

Key to promote later life lending at MBE

Key Retirement Group will outline the growth of later life lending opportunities at the...

Strong growth for second charge market

Second charge new business was up 25% year-on-year in August, the Finance & Leasing...

Asset finance sector growth continues

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has revealed that asset finance new business (primarily...

Paul Nye to retire from 
Stonebridge Group

Stonebridge Group has announced that Paul Nye, its director of business partnerships, will retire...

House price annual growth rate up 4%

Halifax has reported that house prices rose by 0.8% between August and September, following...

Equity release an option for portfolio landlords?

Retirement Advantage has claimed that landlords affected by the new PRA mortgage affordability checks could still...

Naismiths builds surveying team

National property consultancy and surveyors Naismiths has recruited a pair of surveyors to grow its surveying...

“20% chance” of November Bank Rate rise

There is a one in five chance of a Bank of England rate rise...

Leeds’ Swansea branch team supports local charity 

Staff from the Leeds Building Society have used their volunteering leave at a Swansea-based...

Bluestone Mortgages increases funding capacity

Bluestone Mortgages has announced an expansion in its funding relationship with the launch of...
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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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GB Bank cuts 65% LTV BTL rates by 0.30%

GB Bank has reduced its 65% LTV buy-to-let core range rates by an additional...
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Together cuts fixed rates and expands criteria

Specialist lender Together has reduced rates across its fixed-rate product range and announced it...
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Bank lending to smaller property investors falls 14%

The value of lending from UK-regulated banks to small and medium-sized property investment businesses...
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L&G names winners of 15th Business Quality Awards

Legal & General has announced the winners of its 15th annual Business Quality Awards. The...

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