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Record mortgage lending for the Nationwide

The Nationwide Building Society lent a record £33.7 billion in the year to 4...

Limited company BTL grows in popularity

Research from moneyfacts.co.uk shows that the proportion of buy-to-let deals available to limited companies has...

The Family BS joins Positive panel

Positive Lending has announced the addition of the Family Building Society to its packager...

Flats outperformed all other property types since 2009

Halifax has reported that the average price of a UK flat has increased by £84,644...

New ICR calculation from Coventry for Intermediaries

Coventry for intermediaries has introduced a tiered ICR proposition for buy-to-let landlords, based on...

Robo mortgage adviser raises £2m in seed funding

MortgageGym has completed a seed funding round of £2m ahead of its official launch this...

Network appoints development manager

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has appointed Gareth Finney to the role of development...

Merger agreed between well-established packagers

TFC Homeloans and Solent Mortgage Services are to merge. Managing director of SMS, Ian Balfour, will...

Rightmove: ‘typical’ family homes see strongest price growth

Rightmove's house price index for May has found that prices continue to be under-pinned...

Flat activity for conveyancers

The year so far has seen little movement in quarterly conveyancing activity levels, according to the Q1...

Landbay unveils quick quote tool for brokers

Landbay has introduced a quick quote tool for mortgage brokers on its intermediary website. Brokers...

Leeds volunteers help at Bradford school

Staff from Leeds Building Society’s branches used their volunteering leave to tidy a memorial...

TMA adds Marsden to lender panel

TMA Mortgage Club members now have access to Marsden Building Society’s Lending Solutions which include residential,...

Equiniti opens south west hub

Equiniti Group has opened its latest regional technology hub, Ada House, in Exeter’s Pynes...

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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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