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New exclusives from Skipton Intermediaries

Skipton Intermediaries is offering a selection of two-year fixed rate exclusives, available for purchase...

New ASTL executive committee

Members of the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) have appointed a new executive...

Advisers don’t want easier access to equity release

Nearly two-thirds of attendees in a seminar focusing on equity release at this year’s...

Peston: govt wants to do something big on housing

Robert Peston, ITV's political editor, thinks the new prime minister would like to do...

More 2 Life invests in staff and service

More 2 Life has increased staff numbers by 53% over the past 18 months and...

Month-on-month fall in FTB & home mover activity

Home-owners borrowed £10.6bn for house purchase in July 2016, down 13% month-on-month and 12%...

Brexit effect won’t be fully felt for years

An industry panel at today's Financial Services Expo (FSE) London have agreed that the...

Fewer ‘dinner party landlords’ predicted

Changes hitting buy-to-landlords, such as a rise in stamp duty for additional homes and...

MAB: new talent key to growing businesses

The Financial Service Expo (FSE) London has heard business owners being urged to consider...

FCA signals Mortgage Market Study launch

The Financial Services Authority (FCA) is to formally launch its Mortgage Market Study towards the...

Scottish property market remains resilient

House prices in Scotland remain resilient, despite Brexit uncertainty and a slowdown in high...

Atom Bank to use Hometrack AVM services

Hometrack has been appointed by digital challenger bank, Atom, to provide a range of...

FHL cuts rates and simplifies fee structure

Foundation Home Loans (FHL) has cut rates across its buy-to-let range and has simplified its...

New low Sharia compliant rates from Al Rayan Bank

Al Rayan Bank (UK) has announced the lowest ever rental rates on its Home Purchase...
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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...
Technology

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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