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Aldermore outlines retention fee offering

Aldermore is to launch a retention procuration fee for brokers on 3 April 2017. Procuration fees will be available...

Remortgaging approvals up 16% year-on-year

Latest high street banking data from the British Bankers' Association (BBA) shows that consumer...

The Coventry reports 13% rise in new lending

The Coventry Building Society has reported 'record results' for 2016. The mutual's full year results show record mortgage...

Further £7bn loss at RBS

The Royal Bank of Scotland has posted losses of £7bn for 2016. Restructuring costs included a £750m...

Landlords enjoy good start to 2017

The latest Your Move England & Wales Buy to Let Index has found that...

New buy-to-let deals from Pepper Homeloans

Pepper Homeloans has launched two and five-year buy-to-let fixed rates and cutting some existing rates by...

Magellan partners with 3mc

Magellan Homeloans is to distribute its full range of mortgage products via the specialist distributor...

New Help to Buy deal from the Leeds

The Leeds Building Society has reported continued strong demand for Help to Buy Equity loan...

Paymentshield offers mortgage broker introducer facility

Paymentshield has unveiled an introducer scheme for mortgage advisers. The initiative aims to offer advisers the means...

Lowest rate ever for Kent Reliance

Kent Reliance has made changes to its specialist buy-to-let mortgage range, with rates now starting from 2.99%,...

Borro okays loan and transfers funds in three hours

Borro has provided a client of London mortgage broker Coreco with a loan of...

Callcredit secures FCA authorisation

Callcredit Information Group's wholly owned subsidiaries, Callcredit Limited and Callcredit Consumer Limited, have achieved full...

CML: gross lending up 2% year-on-year

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has estimated that gross mortgage lending totalled £18.9 billion...

Coventry for Intermediaries to pay BTL transfer proc fees

Coventry for Intermediaries is to start paying product transfer fees on buy-to-let retention business from...

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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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,...

Vida broadens mortgage range with new higher LTV tier and lower rates

Vida has expanded its mortgage range with rate cuts of up to 0.72%, alongside...

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