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Appointments at United Trust Bank

United Trust Bank has made two appointments in its specialised mortgages division. Robert Owen, currently...

Keystone added to Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added Keystone Property Finance to its lender panel. The mortgage services proposition's member...

The Mortgage Lender completes first case

Nine weeks after launch, The Mortgage Lender (TML) has completed its first case. The mortgage,...

Payday lender in £34m customer redress action

Payday firm CFO Lending is to provide over £34 million of redress to more...

Together partners with TBMC for auction and bridging finance

Specialist lender Together has announced its partnership with buy-to-let and commercial mortgage broker TBMC. Together...

£1tn now in retirees’ property wealth

Retired homeowners have seen their property wealth break through the £1 trillion barrier for...

Londoners leaving home at risk of debt

New research from Weroom, the flatsharing marketplace, reveals that the annual exodus of people...

Rental culture remains insecure

Tenants are experiencing a surge of financial optimism, as more see buying as a...

The Dudley expands introducer panel

The Dudley Building Society has announced that master broker Clever Lending has become the latest...

£11k cost of moving home

The average cost of moving home has risen by £870 over the past year to £10,996, according...

Bank Rate should be -1%, claims think tank

Think tank the International Longevity Centre – UK (ILC-UK) has calculated that the base rate...

Brits want face-to-face financial help

61% of Britons think discussing financial matters is more important that seeking health advice...

Owners favouring home improvements over moving

A survey of over 2,500 UK homeowners from comparethemarket.com found that, at a time...

New five-year BTL fixes from Paragon

Paragon Mortgages has unveiled a new range of five year, fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage products...
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Buy-to-let

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...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

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Energy efficiency

Energy-efficient homes ‘may carry higher climate risks’

Some of the UK’s more energy-efficient homes could face greater long-term exposure to flooding...
Housing

New towns plan may help supply but risks falling short, says former RICS chair

The government’s announcement of seven proposed new towns has been broadly welcomed as a...
Buy-to-let

Buy-to-let mortgage rates rise as landlords face fresh cost pressures

Buy-to-let mortgage rates have risen sharply this month, while landlords are also facing further...
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Virgin Money to take mortgage application systems offline for five days

Virgin money has announced that its Virgin Money and Clydesdale online application platforms will...

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