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Lenders must ensure people can afford to borrow

The Bank of England’s latest money and credit statistics show consumer borrowing increasing by...

Monthly fall in mortgage approvals

The Bank of England has reported that February saw mortgage approvals falling for the...

West One Loans partners with Black Book Finance

West One Loans range of bridging products are now being offered to mortgage intermediaries...

Castle Trust unveils secure email service

Castle Trust is offering a new service which will enable the lender and its intermediary partners...

First network member for the Equity Release Council

Lighthouse Advisory Services has joined the Equity Release Council as its first financial services network organisation member. The...

L&G Mortgage Club unveils Pepper exclusives

Pepper Homeloans has launched a range of two-year fixed rates starting from 2.40%, exclusively via...

Small deposit buyers continue to grow market share

Borrowers with a deposit of 15% or smaller made up 20.5% of the market...

Over-50s facing financial services age discrimination

Over 50s insurer SunLife People has found that people aged 50 and over are...

Source powers SimplyBiz comparison sites

Source Insurance has worked with SimplyBiz Group’s website solution service, NextGen, to create a joint...

TMW cuts two-year buy-to-let rates

The Mortgage Works (TMW) has cut rates on selected two-year buy-to-let fixed rate mortgages by 0.15 percentage...

Buy to Let Club partners with Precise Mortgages

Buy to Let Club has teamed up with Precise Mortgages to offer its members an...

Mortgage lending up at the Mansfield

The Mansfield Building Society has reported a 3.8% growth in mortgage assets in 2016...

Brokers expect development finance demand rise

A broker sentiment survey, carried out in January this year by specialist lender United...

ARLA fights letting agent fee ban

ARLA Propertymark (Association of Residential Letting Agents) has claimed that the government’s proposed ban...

COMMENT

Beyond the Robo-Adviser: why the future of mortgages is ‘Human Plus’

The fintech industry is obsessing over a binary choice: the traditional human broker or the fully automated 'robo-adviser'. But as we navigate the complexities...

Ceasefire boosts sentiment more than mortgage market

What goes up must come down, but for mortgage rates the drop will be notably more gradual than the sharp increase triggered by the...

A surge today, but what comes next for advisers and conveyancing?

March has provided a very clear example of how quickly this market can move when lenders feel the need to take action, with widespread...

Technology adapts so you don’t have to

20 years ago, many brokerages looked and operated in very similar ways. Typically small, local business, many firms focused solely on standard residential mortgage...

Rental barometer shows strength, but March changes the tone

Looking at our recently published Q1 2026 Rental Barometer data in isolation, there is clearly a strong and positive story to tell. Average rental...

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Skipton to cut residential rates and revive three-year fixes

Skipton Building Society is cutting rates across parts of its residential mortgage range from...

The Leek lowers mortgage rates across residential and specialist products

Leek Building Society is cutting mortgage rates across parts of its residential, shared ownership,...

Fleet Mortgages adds two-year tracker products to buy-to-let range

Fleet Mortgages has launched three new two-year tracker mortgages at 75% loan-to-value across its...

Norton Home Loans provides remortgage on PRC home in Southampton

Norton Home Loans has completed a £218,000 remortgage for joint applicants in Southampton, allowing...

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