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Home buyer activity in London continues to fall

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported that in the first quarter of...

The Adviser Alliance partners with Brilliant Solutions

The Adviser Alliance will deliver its mortgage club proposition with Brilliant Solutions. The direct to...

Tenet to distribute Ipswich BS products

Tenet has joined Ipswich Building Society’s panel of approved intermediaries. Gemma Harle, TenetLime's managing director,...

West One moves into second charge market

West One Loans is to offer a range of second charge mortgage lending products, as...

Octane Capital completes offshore ownership deal

Octane Capital has completed a £5.4m bridging loan to an offshore borrower in seven...

Family putting squeeze on retirement incomes

34% of people planning to retire this year are financially supporting family members, contributing...

Ideal bedroom-bathroom ratio revealed

According to estate agents, a property should have two bathrooms for every three bedrooms...

Wealth hit by later life cohabiting

People over pension age are the fastest growing group of cohabitees, according to new...

Borro: slow lending hitting SME investment

Borro has warned that the banking industry must improve speed of access to finance...

Sales team changes at Paymentshield

Paymentshield has announced that Neil Parfitt has been promoted from regional sales manager to...

Landlords to flock to the North?

80% of brokers think that the North of England will become a landlord hotspot over...

Tesco Bank unveils its lowest ever tracker rate

Tesco Bank has introduced its lowest ever tracker rate mortgage at 0.98%. It has also reduced...

New larger loan deals from Accord Mortgages

Accord Mortgages has unveiled a range of new mortgages for borrowers looking for a larger loan...

Sharp fall in BTL lending at Paragon

The Paragon Group of Companies has reported that its new buy-to-let lending totalled £556.2 million for...

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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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Average cost of moving hits £13,018

The average cost of moving home has reached £13,018 for those buying and selling...

Equity Release Supermarket calls for greater collaboration

The Equity Release Supermarket (ERS), part of the Equity Release Group (ERG), has called...

Redwood Bank launches valuation fee cashback offer

The new valuation cashback offer gives landlords 100% of their valuation fee back on...

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...

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