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Just Mortgages unveils broker training academy

Just Mortgages has introduced a training academy, following two pilots earlier in the year.  The...

The Leeds partners with parkrun

The Leeds Building Society has announced a new, three-year partnership with parkrun, a volunteer-led, not-for-profit...

Step One Finance cuts rates

Step One Finance has announced new rates for its product range as well as...

Brokers still expect house price growth

65% of property and asset finance brokers expect the average house price to increase...

Home buyer activity in London continues to fall

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported that in the first quarter of...

The Adviser Alliance partners with Brilliant Solutions

The Adviser Alliance will deliver its mortgage club proposition with Brilliant Solutions. The direct to...

Tenet to distribute Ipswich BS products

Tenet has joined Ipswich Building Society’s panel of approved intermediaries. Gemma Harle, TenetLime's managing director,...

West One moves into second charge market

West One Loans is to offer a range of second charge mortgage lending products, as...

Octane Capital completes offshore ownership deal

Octane Capital has completed a £5.4m bridging loan to an offshore borrower in seven...

Family putting squeeze on retirement incomes

34% of people planning to retire this year are financially supporting family members, contributing...

Ideal bedroom-bathroom ratio revealed

According to estate agents, a property should have two bathrooms for every three bedrooms...

Wealth hit by later life cohabiting

People over pension age are the fastest growing group of cohabitees, according to new...

Borro: slow lending hitting SME investment

Borro has warned that the banking industry must improve speed of access to finance...

Sales team changes at Paymentshield

Paymentshield has announced that Neil Parfitt has been promoted from regional sales manager to...

COMMENT

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...

Rental barometer shows strength, but March changes the tone

Looking at our recently published Q1 2026 Rental Barometer data in isolation, there is clearly a strong and positive story to tell. Average rental...

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BoE chief signals caution over interest rates

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has signalled that policymakers will take a cautious...

New Homes buys Clark Marshall to grow shared ownership reach

New Homes Mortgage Services LLP has acquired Clark Marshall Associates Ltd in a deal...

Shared living pressures extend well into adulthood as affordability bites

Britons are continuing to live in shared households far later in life as housing...

Landlords juggle 6.5 buy-to-let loans on average, research finds

Landlords with borrowing are managing an average of 6.5 individual buy-to-let loans across just...

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