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Keystone cuts Classic Range rates

Keystone Property Finance has reduced all fixed rates in its Classic Range. Five year...

10% growth in seconds market predicted

Brokers expect the value of the second charge loans market to increase by 10%...

The Yorkshire cuts three and five-year fixes

The Yorkshire Building Society has announced a 0.14 basis point reduction on selected three and...

Mortgage Affordability Tool unveiled

Money Dashboard has introduced the Mortgage Affordability Tool (MAT), a new product targeting the...

RLAM: expect November rate cut

Despite the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) unanimously voting yesterday to maintain...

TSB cuts fixed and tracker rates

TSB is reducing rates across a range of fixed and tracker-rate mortgages for homemovers,...

TFC offers free legals through new members club

TFC Homeloans is offering brokers up to £1m in free legals for remortgage clients...

Mortgage Vision details revealed

The dates, venues and registration details have been announced for the 2016 series of...

The Coventry ups BTL end of term age

The Coventry Building Society is increasing its maximum age at end of term from 75...

The Mortgage Lender cuts tracker rates

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has reduced the cost of its tracker mortgages. The Glasgow-based lender...

Record results for Together

Together has posted record pre-tax profits £90.3m for the year ending 30 June 2016, an...

MPC holds Bank Rate

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted unanimously to maintain the...

LendInvest unveils Property Development Academy

LendInvest has launched the LendInvest Property Development Academy, a new initiative designed to teach aspiring...

The Source appointed TRMC’s GI partner

The Right Mortgage Company (TMRC) has appointed Source Insurance as its preferred general...

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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-efficient homes ‘may carry higher climate risks’

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

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 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...

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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