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Major promotions at Brightstar

Brightstar Financial has made two internal promotions to its senior management team. Bradley Moore (pictured) is now managing...

Accord expands offset offering

Accord Mortgages has added five new options to its offset range. The new offsets are available...

SimplyBiz Mortgages adds Fluent to seconds panel

SimplyBiz Mortgages has chosen Fluent for Advisers as part of its ancillary panel of...

Together raises maximum mortgage ceiling

Together has increased its maximum personal mortgage loan amount to £1m. It is available for purchase,...

Advisers unable to find retirement lending solutions

New research from equity release lender More 2 Life has revealed that 79% of advisers...

New addition to Precise’s sales team

Dan Watson has joined the sales team of Precise Mortgages. He will work predominantly in the...

InterBay simplifies pricing and cuts rates

InterBay Commercial is to simplify its mortgage range for buy-to-let business and houses of multiple occupation...

New two-year fixes from Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has launched two new products for individual landlords.  Brokers can now access both two-year fixes,...

BFS backs sample book manufacturer

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has completed a new funding package with Sampling International, a sample...

OneFamily expands lifetime mortgage offering

OneFamily has added two new flexible interest-paying products to its lifetime mortgage range. Consumers will...

Paymentshield appoints Modus to panel

Paymentshield has added Modus to its landlord’s insurance panel. It says the appointment of Modus comes...

New director for Complete FS

Complete FS has appointed Damian Cain to its board. It will have overall responsibility for broker...

Tax returns a trigger for pension planning

Aegon believes today's self assessment deadline is a trigger for the self-employed to think...

CML backs independent social housing regulation

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) says it supports the principle that the regulation of...

COMMENT

Mutual strength and the broker partnership

The mutual sector has always been associated with community purpose, local branches and a member-first approach that feels a little different to the wider...

First-time, accidental or professional? How the landlord profile is shifting in 2026

One of the most common misconceptions that people have about the buy-to-let market is that landlords are a single, uniform group. The reality is...

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Latest news

The Vernon hires internal BDM to expand intermediary reach

Vernon Building Society has appointed Damien Sabbaghe as intermediary business development manager as it...

Coventry trims first-time buyer and limited company buy-to-let rates

Coventry for intermediaries has cut selected mortgage rates for first-time buyers and limited company...

TRM adds to PMI team with supervision & development manager hire

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has appointed Gemma Penkethman as PMI supervision &...

Rental yields rise across England and Wales as buy-to-let market enters more volatile period

Rental yields increased annually in every region of England and Wales in the first...

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