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BFS extends mid-market business funding capabilities

Invoice finance provider, Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has increased its funding for mid-market businesses...

Openwork passes 3,500 adviser mark

Openwork Group has revealed that its adviser headcount now stands at 3,521, up from...

More 2 Life achieves lending milestone

More 2 Life has announced that it has surpassed £1bn of lending, along with a...

Reward Finance sets new lending record

Reward Finance Group has advanced £8m across 20 deals in just 10 working days, beating...

Landlords identify next London hotspots

Landlords believe the next London property hotspots will include the likes of Woodford, Leytonstone...

Santander makes high LTV mortgage changes

Santander has cut the rates on its fixed two and five year, high loan...

Arnie to star in PPI deadline campaign

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has revealed that Arnold Schwarzenegger is featuring in a new...

IMLA sees improving picture for first-time buyers

88% of mortgage applications made via intermediaries resulted in offers during the second quarter...

New Help to Buy products from the Leeds

The Leeds Building Society has revamped its Help to Buy equity (HTB1) range and...

Platform cuts two and five-year fixes

Platform has reduced select two and five year fixed rate mortgage interest rates, for...

Nationwide sees house price growth slow

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that the annual pace of house price growth...

New deals for landlords from Accord

Accord Buy To Let has aunched a choice of new mortgages for landlords with...

Bank of Mum & Dad funding £2.3bn of rental payments

The Bank of Mum and Dad will fund £2.3 billion of rental payments in...

Mint Bridging selects Safe4 service

Mint Bridging has adopted the Safe4 service from Safe4 Information Management to provide a secure cloud platform...

COMMENT

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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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...

Broker optimism grows as sub-4% rates edge closer

A series of mortgage rate cuts from lenders this week has sparked optimism among...

Renters face higher costs amid strong demand

Two in three (63%) recent movers ended up paying more rent than planned, as...

ModaMortgages cuts rates across limited-edition BTL range

ModaMortgages has announced a reprice of its limited-edition buy-to-let range, with rate reductions across...

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