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Second charge market continues to grow

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has reported that there was £79m worth of...

Asset finance market up 5%

Latest figures from the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that asset finance new...

Bye bye Barwell

Housing minister Gavin Barwell has lost his Croydon Central seat to Labour Party candidate Sarah...

The Leeds supports Volunteers’ Week

The Leeds Building Society has 44 employees signed up to support a variety of projects...

Housing market continues to stagnate

RICS UK Residential Market Survey for May has found enquiries, instructions and sales all declining over...

Accord introduces cashback to buy-to-let range

Accord Buy To Let has added cashback to its entire mortgage range. Landlords opting for...

Metro Bank cuts five year rates

Metro Bank has reduced rates across its five-year-fixed residential range. For residential mortgages under £2 million, the...

Newcastle Intermediaries improves buy-to-let criteria

Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced the minimum income requirement for joint buy-to-let properties from £40,000...

Shawbrook directors reject takeover bid

Shawbrook Group is sending a circular to its shareholders in response to the final...

Assetz Capital unveils new property investment account

Assetz Capital has launched the Property Secured Investment Account (PSIA), with Provision Fund, which...

Leeds team raises £1,900 for charities      

17 colleagues from Leeds Building Society raised £1,905 for charity by completing a 27 mile...

ASTL welcomes back founder member

Affirmative Group has re-joined the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL). The Manchester-based lender left...

New BTL deals from the Leeds BS

The Leeds Building Society has changed its buy-to-let mortgage offering and has launched a five year tracker with...

Landlords favouring five year fixed rates

While most landlords have been affected by recent and ongoing restrictions to income tax relief...
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COMMENT

Bridging

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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Paymentshield boosts sales team

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

Key Partnerships urges advisers to raise standards

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

Together appoints corporate affairs director

Specialist lender Together has appointed Kate Grimoldby as its new corporate affairs director, reporting...
Buy-to-let

Average rental yields up annually despite quarterly dip

Average rental yields across England and Wales continued to rise year-on-year, although six out...

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