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£35bn+ worth of mortgages due to mature in Autumn

The largest period of mortgage maturities in five years begins in September. Data from CACI...

New limited edition offer from Foundation Home Loans

Foundation Home Loans has introduced a five-year fixed rate limited edition offer on its...

Paradigm Protect partners with funeral plan provider

Paradigm Protect has announced a new relationship with Golden Charter. Golden Charter is a funeral plan...

Magellan Homeloans now accepts four applicants 

Magellan Homeloans will now lend to up to four applicants for its Complex Prime...

LLA offers new membership benefits

The Later Life Academy (LLA) has launched a new ‘Strength in Numbers’ campaign designed to...

New service for Wills and Lasting Powers of Attorney

The Right Will and Estate Planning has launched a new referral service for advisers...

House prices see ‘modest’ 0.3% increase month-on-month

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

Lending down at the Yorkshire

The Yorkshire Building Society saw its core operating profit increase by 35% to £84.2m...

Buy-to-let rates continue on downward trajectory

Research from moneyfacts.co.uk shows that the average two-year fixed buy-to-let rate has fallen by...

AToM and UTB complete £1.7m bridge in nine days

All Types of Mortgages (AToM) has revealed that it arranged a £1.7m regulated bridging loan...

BM Solutions to support portfolio landlords

BM Solutions has stated that it will be supporting buy-to-let portfolio lending ahead of...

Total stamp duty bill for London homebuyers tops £40,000

Lloyds Bank has established that homeowners spend an average £12,693 in total on stamp...

BoE reports June rise in lending

The Bank of England has revealed that lending to individuals increased to £1,544.7bn in...

Proportion of borrowers with large deposits increases

The latest Mortgage Monitor from e.surv has reported that there were 65,887 loans (seasonally...
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Homebuying

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...
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Broker optimism grows as sub-4% rates edge closer

A series of mortgage rate cuts from lenders this week has sparked optimism among...
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Renters face higher costs amid strong demand

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