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Gatehouse Bank cuts 5-year BTL rates for expats and overseas buyers

Gatehouse Bank has reduced rental rates by 0.18% across its full range of 5-year...

LSL boosts FS market share as Pivotal Growth secures funding

LSL Property Services has reported a strong end to 2025 with improved profitability across...

Time Finance posts record lending book and profits in strong H1

Time Finance has reported record first-half revenues and profits after delivering its eighteenth consecutive...

Home sale completes in just three days

A home-moving partnership between Movera, Connells Group and iamproperty Group has completed a property...

INDUSTRY REACTION: Equity release lending rises 11% in 2025

The equity release market recorded its strongest annual growth in recent years, with total...

Commercial brokers divided on UK economic outlook, survey suggests

Commercial finance brokers remain split on the prospects for the UK economy over the...

Advisers turn to AI as technology research surges in 2025

Advisers are showing unprecedented levels of interest in advice technology, with traffic to independent...

YouConvey speeds completions by up to five weeks

YouConvey has shown it can reduce UK property transaction times by more than a...

MorganAsh unveils gap analysis to benchmark firms against vulnerability standards

MorganAsh has launched a new gap analysis service designed to help financial services firms...

TMG Mortgage Network promotes Amy Lister to training and development manager

TMG Mortgage Network has announced the promotion of Amy Lister to the position of...

Virgin Money reshapes buy-to-let product transfer range ahead of other changes

Virgin Money has notified brokers of a series of pricing changes and product withdrawals...

Brilliant adds Scroll Finance to loans panel

Brilliant Group has added Scroll Finance to the secured loans panel of its specialist...

Simplybiz and FIBA launch specialist finance panel

Simplybiz Mortgages and the Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA) have collaborated to launch...

Younger PMI policyholders turn to mental health support

New research from Howden Life & Health shows diagnostic tests and scans are the...
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COMMENT

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Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

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