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The Leeds to pay retention fees

The Leeds Building Society will introduce retention procuration fees later this year. The mutual will pay...

MCI partners with Twenty7tec

Following demand from its brokers, MCI Mortgage Club has launched with mortgage technology firm...

The Hinckley & Rugby cuts fixed and BTL rates

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has cut the interest rates on its two-year...

Remortgagors fearing interest rate rise

The number of remortgagors fearing a rate rise has increased dramatically over the last...

Rightmove: 2% monthly rise in house prices

Rightmove has reported that the annual rate of increase in house prices in February...

IGF provides £4.5m ABL deal

IGF, the commercial finance provider for SMEs, has recently delivered a £4.5 million asset...

Shared ownership exclusives for L&G Mortgage Club

Legal & General Mortgage Club has launched a range of exclusive deals with Leeds...

New 1.29% ERC-free tracker from Accord

Accord Mortgages has launched a new tracker mortgage with no early repayment charges (ERCs). The...

Barclays unveils mortgage offering for entrepreneurs

Barclays Wealth & Investments has introduced a new mortgage proposition aimed at UK entrepreneurs and founders...

Rise in guarantor loan issues

Citizens Advice has seem a 40% increase in the number of guarantor loan problems that...

GI firm to provide £12.5m redress

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has agreed a redress arrangement with Express Gifts Ltd,...

Retirement debt back on the rise

Prudential has found that the proportion of people retiring in debt this year is at...

ABI wants income protection ‘win-win’

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has called on the government to introduce a...

Scotland house prices rise by over £400 in December

Your Move has reported that house prices keep edging up in Scotland, increasing 0.2%...

COMMENT

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...

Home and away: How appetite for UK property is rising

Conflicts in Ukraine and now the Middle East are a reminder that the catastrophic impact of war is not confined to war zones.   The...

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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...

Paragon expands landlord offering with limited edition five-year fixes

Paragon Bank has launched a new range of limited edition five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgages...

Zero-deposit mortgage sales reach five-year high as affordability pressures persist

The number of zero-deposit mortgage sales reached 574 in the first three quarters of...

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