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DM Hall appoints East of Scotland head of agency

Scottish chartered surveying firm DM Hall has appointed a senior commercial professional to its East Coast-based...

First Complete & Pink urges broker action over BTL changes

First Complete and Pink are calling for brokers to ensure landlords on their books...

BFS opens new Wales office

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) is opening a new office in Wales. The SME funder supports more...

Front Events reveals Midlands events

Front Events, organisers of the Financial Services Expo (FSE) exhibitions, will be running two...

Paragon team to tackle Three Peaks

A Paragon Mortgages team of eight regional sales managers (RSM) is taking on the...

Bluestone Mortgages appoints MD

Bluestone Group has announced the appointment of David Torpey as managing director of Bluestone Mortgages and...

Paul Brett joins Landbay

Landbay has appointed Paul Brett as managing director, intermediaries. He joins the peer-to-peer investment platform from...

Promise offers free landlord tax consultations

Master broker Promise Specialist Lending is providing landlords with a free telephone consultation with...

Magellan products now available through PMS 

Magellan Homeloans' range of products are now available to members of the PMS Mortgage...

Working into late seventies could become necessity

Those people who plan a ‘flexible’ retirement, reducing their working hours in later life...

More Than Landlord Insurance offer renewal guarantee

More Than Landlord Insurance has issued a guarantee that landlords will pay the same...

Landlords shifting towards commercial loans

The proportion of landlords intending to take out commercial loans to fund their property...

Oxford is UK’s least affordable city

Home affordability, as measured by the ratio between average city house prices and average...

Rental market “far from reaching equilibrium”

ARLA Propertymark has revealed that in January, there were 34 prospective tenants registered per...

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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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...

Scotland attracts rising interest from GCC property buyers

Scotland is becoming an increasingly popular destination for Gulf buyers looking at UK property,...

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