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Capital’s commuter belt stretching further eastwards

Residential rents in the East of England increased by 2.35% in the 12 months...

Competition drove remortgaging activity in June

21% of remortgagors lowered their overall mortgage payments in June – up from 15%...

Keystone added to Julian Harris panel

Keystone Property Finance has joined the mortgage panel of Julian Harris Adviser Network. Appointed Representatives...

Simple Landlords Insurance awarded 5 Star Defaqto rating

Simple Landlords Insurance has received the highest 5 Star Rating from financial information business,...

Paymentshield expands home insurance panel

Paymentshield has increased the total number of members of its home insurance panel to...

eTech develops Buy To Let Hub for portfolio landlord market

In light of the imminent regulatory changes from the Prudential Regulation Authority relating to...

Skipton International sees 130% rise in expat mortgage enquiries

Skipton International has revealed that it received over £500 million of expat mortgage enquiries...

Royal London appoints non-executive director

Royal London has announced the appointment of Olivia Dickson as a non-executive director. Dickson held...

Mortgage Advice Bureau partners with TML

Mortgage Advice Bureau has become the latest distribution partner for The Mortgage Lender (TML). Mortgage Advice...

Barclays changes residential and BTL ranges

Barclays Mortgages is making changes to its residential and buy-to-let range tomorrow (3 August). Changes...

L&G Mortgage Club reveals conference details

Legal & General Mortgage Club is to hold another live conference in London this...

Together partners with Bamboo Auctions

Together has teamed up with Bamboo Auctions, an online property auction marketplace, to offer...

Pepper unveils new residential and BTL rates

Pepper Homeloans has cut interest rates by up to 0.70 percentage points across both...

Lack of protection among ‘generation debt’

Renters among the late-Millennial generation (25-34 years old) are one of the least financially...

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...

Latest news

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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