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Pepper UK ‘delighted’ by new S&P ratings

Pepper (UK) Limited has been assigned an ‘above average’ ranking by Standard & Poor’s,...

Air Sourcing adds Mansfield’s later life offering

Equity Release Club and AIR Sourcing have announced a new relationship with the Mansfield Building...

BestAdvice on holiday!

The team at BestAdvice are taking their annual holiday next week, 21-25 August, during what is...

One-fifth of brokers expect 2017 rate rise

A United Trust Bank poll has found that 21% of brokers believe that the...

New remortgage deals from Accord

Accord Mortgages has introduced three remortgage options with a £495 fee. The new offerings include...

FTBs driving sales north of the border

Average house prices in Scotland increased 0.5% in June, while annual growth jumped to...

Positive Lending appoints regional account manager

Positive Lending has announced the appointment of David Coleman as the new regional account...

West Sussex becomes most attractive county for pensioners

Prudential has claimed that West Sussex is the county where pensioners have the highest...

Intrinsic adds Pepper to panel

Pepper Homeloans has been appointed to the mortgage lender panel of Intrinsic Network. Intrinsic will...

Aegon and Funding Circle agree long term partnership

Aegon and Funding Circle have announced a strategic long term partnership designed to support...

Tesco Bank offers new five-year fixed remortgage deals 

Tesco Bank has introduced two new five-year fixed rate remortgage products. It has also reduced...

Record mortgage lending for the Mansfield

The Mansfield Building Society has reported its highest ever volume of monthly applications in...

OSB reveals plans for PRA portfolio landlord changes

OneSavings Bank (OSB) has announced its new lending criteria for portfolio landlords to help...

Pepper Homeloans extends distribution network

Pepper Homeloans has added Paradigm Mortgage Club to its list of distribution partners. Paradigm will...

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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