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Hinckley & Rugby outlines new BTL stress test policy

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has revealed its new lending policy for buy-to-let mortgages. The...

CML revises 2017 lending forecasts downwards

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has published new housing market forecasts. Its lending forecasts for 2017 have been...

Record month for West One Loans

West One Loans has reported a record month in November with £54 million lent across residential...

Client retention key priority for most brokers

Legal & General has found that 90% of brokers believe that client retention is a...

Clever Lending partners with Kensington 

Clever Lending is to distribute Kensington Mortgages range of specialist and buy-to-let mortgages.  The partnership will see Clever Lending...

New deals from Magellan Homeloans

Magellan Homeloans has launched two new product ranges and cut its fixed rates pricing.  The changes,...

Fluent for Advisers bucks FLA trend

Second charge distributor Fluent for Advisers (F4A) has seen new business continue to grow...

LendInvest unveils auction finance offering

LendInvest has launched its first distinct auction finance product. It is designed for borrowers who need their...

Intermediary sentiment improving

Paragon Mortgages’ latest Financial Advisors Confidence Tracking (FACT) Index report has found an improvement...

Barclays simplifies BTL affordability assessment

Barclays has become the latest lender to respond to the Prudential Regulation Authority's (PRA) new...

8% fall in homeowner loans

  The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that homeowners borrowed £10.5bn for house purchase...

Accord offers five-year offset deals

Accord Mortgages has launched a new range of five-year offset mortgages. They are aimed at...

Borrowers oblivious to size of their debt

Three in five mortgage borrowers are unable to say what’s left to pay on...

Gender disparity in understanding of base rate effect

Only 27% of mortgage-paying homeowners understand how cuts to the Bank of England’s base...

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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