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The Skipton cuts Help to Buy rates

The Skipton Building Society has cut rates by up to 0.69 percentage points on...

Brilliant Solutions moves to fees-free packaging

Brilliant Solutions says it will no longer be charging any packaging fees. All fees have been...

Together hires new national account manager

Specialist lender Together has hired Keith Jones as national account manager. This follows the lender's...

Conveyancing portal backs ‘free legals’ scrap

SortRefer has praised Nationwide for its decision to scrap remortgage ‘free legals’ packages across...

InterBay unveils bridging proposition

InterBay Commercial is to provide residential and commercial bridging finance for property investors.  Rates...

New Family Mortgage options from the Teachers

The Teachers Building Society has launched new Family Mortgage options designed to help families...

Land Registry reports 0.5% monthly rise in house prices

The Land Registry's House Price Index for May 2017 shows an annual price increase...

New lows for buy-to-let mortgage flat fees

Flat fees for buy-to-let mortgages are now lower than they have been at any...

Three new faces for Masthaven

Masthaven has welcomed three new appointments. John Smith joins as national account manager for first...

Better energy costings could improve mortgage affordability

A new report has concluded that more accurate assessments of home energy bills by...

‘Mortgage Switch Guarantee’ proposals published

Online mortgage broker Trussle is proposing that a new set of industry standards be...

SaaS firm joins ASTL as associate member

BrightOffice has joined the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) as its latest associate...

Sense Network adopts Mortgage Brain software

Sense Network has become the latest firm to select Mortgage Brain as its preferred...

More 18-24 year olds saving than any other generation

Aldermore's first annual savings index has found that young adults are more likely to...
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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...
Buy-to-let

Renters face higher costs amid strong demand

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

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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