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Record month for Amicus Property Finance

Amicus Property Finance has announced a record month of lending in July at £72...

Saffron For Intermediaries overhauls self-employed range

Saffron For Intermediaries has revamped its complete range of mortgages for the self-employed and...

Nationwide cuts fixed rates

The Nationwide Building Society has cut rates on a number of two, three and...

Metro Bank appoints new CIO

Metro Bank has announced the appointment of Martyn Atkinson as chief information officer (CIO). He...

Trio of new broker BDMs for Together

Together has appointed three new business development managers to cover the North East, London...

Positive offers Marsden’s older borrower range

Positive Lending is adding Marsden Building Society’s Older Borrower products to its lending portfolio.  The...

Castle Trust outlines PRA phase 2 stance

Castle Trust Capital has revealed its approach to implementing of the PRA Phase 2...

New HMO deal from FHL

Foundation Home Loans has added a new HMO product to its buy-to-let range. It...

OneSavings Bank staff ride for children’s charity

Eight members of staff from OneSavings Bank cycled 276 miles to support the children’s...

The Leeds to continue serving portfolio landlords

The Leeds Building Society has outlined its approach to buy-to-let lending rule changes coming into...

Household wealth grows by £3.9 trillion since 2006

The UK's total household wealth totalled an estimated £10.5 trillion in 2016, according to...

Positive Lending adds Tipton & Coseley BS to panel

Positive Lending has expanded its mortgage lending panel with the addition of the Tipton...

UK equity release potential ‘tops £370bn’

Research from Retirement Advantage has found that the potential wealth collectively available to over-55s...

The Right Mortgage unveils conveyancing solution

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has launched a new conveyancing platform, The Right...

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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