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TMA unveils exclusive fee free remortgage deal

TMA Mortgage Club has teamed up with The Melton Building Society to provide its...

Recruitment drive at Evolution Money

Evolution Money is expanding its Manchester-based operations and is seeking to take its employee...

Rise in first-time buyer borrowing

UK Finance has revealed that in June, first-time buyers borrowed £5.9bn, up 26% on...

Buy-to-let mortgage costs coming down

Mortgage Brain has reported further rate and cost reductions of most mainstream buy-to-let products...

Metro Bank in £10m care funding deal

Metro Bank has provided Capital Care Group with over £10.2 million in funding, which...

Equity release ‘helps 13 people a week onto housing ladder’

Retirement Advantage estimate that in the first half of 2017, 13 first-time buyers were...

FP Show expands lending remit

The Finance Professional Show (FP Show) will take place on 8 November at Olympia in...

Hidden costs of opening Bank of Mum and Dad

Royal London has warned parents to be aware of a wide range of unexpected...

Best ever remortgage deals on their way out?

Remortgage customers have been able to benefit from some of the lowest rates ever...

ASTL reveals annual conference details

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) is to hold its annual conference on...

Octane Capital refinances BTL portfolio despite credit issues

Octane Capital has completed a £1.1m refinance of a complex buy-to-let portfolio comprising four properties...

Paymentshield goes paperless

Paymentshield has announced that customers will now receive their home insurance policy documents online. New...

Summer slowdown for housing market

Your Move and Acadata have stated that house prices reduced by 0.2% in July,...

Landbay partners with Positive Lending

Positive Lending is to join Landbay’s panel of distribution partners. Landbay will help Positive Lending...

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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