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UK Finance officially launches

A new trade association, UK Finance, has officially launched to represent the finance and...

Private Label brand resurrected by Brightstar Financial

Brightstar Financial is re-launching Private Label as a specialist lending brand. The brand was originally...

Accord offers retention proc fees

Accord Mortgages is now paying a 0.30% gross procuration fee for retained business on...

Octopus Property launches latest resi development product

Octopus Property has introduced a new, lower priced residential development finance product. Priced at 0.54%...

BFS provides £8m package for West Brom business

One of the largest sheet plants in the UK has secured an £8m asset...

Second charge provider in £256m securitisation

Optimum Credit has raised £256m via a securitisation transaction which it hopes will further...

Prime London transactions remain subdued

London Central Portfolio's (LCP) analysis of Land Registry data for the first quarter of...

New chairs for FCA panels

The Financial Conduct Authority chairman, John Griffith-Jones, has announced the appointments of new chairs...

Amicus boss joins UK Finance board

John Jenkins, CEO of Amicus Finance, has been appointed to the board of UK...

New P2P investment options from Kuflink

Peer-to-peer platform Kuflink, sister business to bridging lender Kuflink Bridging, has announced the launch of two...

Complete FS achieves FHL first

Complete FS has become the first of Foundation Home Loans’ (FHL) partners to receive an...

Poor technology to blame for slow conveyancing

The conveyancing sector is seen as less technologically sophisticated than brokers, lenders and valuers...

Large deposit buyers at lowest proportion so far in 2017

The proportion of people buying a home with a large deposit fell in May,...

Halifax unveils new cashback offer

Halifax is offering first time buyers, homemovers and remortgage customers £750 cashback on qualifying...
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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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