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L&G Mortgage Club updates BTL matrix

Legal & General Mortgage Club has updated its Buy to Let Matrix to include...

Shawbrook completes £13.6m Black Book Finance deal

Shawbrook Bank has completed a development finance loan for £13.6 million with distributor Black Book...

Uninsured women ‘leaving families vulnerable’

Scottish Widows has claimed that a lack of financial protection among women is leaving...

IMLA: outlook for specialist lenders is positive

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has reported that the value of specialist mortgage lenders’...

LendInvest wants government backing for SME builders

LendInvest has hosted a cross-party roundtable at Conservative Party Conference in Manchester to discuss...

L&G appoints intermediary division director

Legal & General has appointed Craig Brown as director of its intermediary division. Brown...

Aldermore to hold buy-to-let seminars at MBE London

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announce a buy-to-let seminar programme with Aldermore at the...

BEP Systems unveils landlord portfolio assessment module

BEP Systems has launched a system for lenders to stress test buy-to-let portfolios automatically....

Aldermore tweaks owner-occupier offering

Aldermore has made changes to its owner-occupier range of mortgages, across both remortgage and...

Halifax Intermediaries improves self-employed policy

Halifax Intermediaries has reduced the income information required for self-employed customers from three to...

Halifax offers new cashback deal

Halifax is giving first-time buyers, homemovers and remortgage customers £750 cashback on qualifying mortgages. Free...

Y3S Group rebrands to Specialist Mortgage Group

South Wales-based finance group Y3S has become the Specialist Mortgage Group (SMG). It consists of...

New CEO for LMS

Nick Chadbourne, chief operating officer (COO) at conveyancing service provider and panel manager LMS, has...

Keystone selects eTech’s Buy to Let Hub

Risk software supplier eTech is to provide Keystone Property Finance with a solution to...

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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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Together cuts fixed rates and expands criteria

Specialist lender Together has reduced rates across its fixed-rate product range and announced it...

Bank lending to smaller property investors falls 14%

The value of lending from UK-regulated banks to small and medium-sized property investment businesses...

L&G names winners of 15th Business Quality Awards

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

MT Finance latest firm to offer World Cup time off

As mortgage firms gear up for England’s 1am World Cup clash against Mexico on...

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