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HNW Lending reports rise in loans on property

HNW Lending lent £14 million against individual homes or portfolios of property in the...

Fixed rate BTL cuts at Foundation Home Loans

Foundation Home Loans has reduced its two, three and five-year fixed rates on its...

Keystone cuts Classic Range rates

Keystone Property Finance has cut all rates in its Classic Range by 10 basis...

Richard Tugwell joins Together

Together has appointed Richard Tugwell to the position of group intermediary relationship director. Tugwell (pictured)...

TSB cuts selected remortgage rates

TSB has reduced interest rates by up to 0.10 percentage points on selected mortgages...

Doubling in expat BTL enquiries

Skipton International has reported a large increase in mortgage enquiries from British expats in...

Together in two-day bridging turnaround

Specialist lender Together, working with mortgage broker SPF Private Client, has completed a regulated...

Pure Retirement sponsors new Air Sourcing site

Pure Retirement is sponsoring the launch of Air Sourcing’s Version 2 website this June, which...

Coventry for Intermediaries celebrates broker pledges

Coventry for Intermediaries has donated £6,940 to a local homeless charity as part of...

SMP to hold BTL protection webinar

The Society of Mortgage Professionals will continue its 2017 digital programme on Thursday 22...

CML expects BTL to remain subdued during the summer

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported that in April, home buyers borrowed...

ONS: house prices up 1.6% month on month

The latest house price index from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed an...

Financial and emotional barriers to downsizing

Bower Retirement 's latest Adviser Tracker research has found that its specialist advisers estimate...

Magellan Homeloans announces new criteria

Magellan Homeloans has introducednew criteria across both Complex Prime and Credit Repair product ranges. The...

COMMENT

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...

With great power comes great responsibility

There has been a huge amount in the press about the “feudal” system of leasehold and how the government’s revitalised commonhold will fix all...

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Mortgage lenders expect slowdown despite Q2 rise in demand

Demand for mortgages increased during the second quarter of the year, although lenders expect...

Foundation reintroduces pound-for-pound remortgage product

Foundation has reintroduced its F1 pound-for-pound (£4£) remortgage product and reduced rates across its...

Paymentshield boosts sales team

Paymentshield has made a series of sales appointments, in a move it said reinforces...

Key Partnerships urges advisers to raise standards

Firms referring customers for later life lending advice must place greater focus on best...

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