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Younger PMI policyholders turn to mental health support

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

Roma Finance launches landlord refurb buy-to-let deal

Roma Finance has launched a refurb buy-to-let product designed to support landlords and property...

The Vernon targets professional borrowers with new mortgage range

Vernon Building Society has launched a new mortgage range aimed at professional borrowers whose...

Royal London launches IHT hub

Royal London has launched an Inheritance Tax (IHT) hub to support advisers through client...

Kensington promotes Burwood to national accounts role

Kensington Mortgages has promoted James Burwood to the role of national account manager. Burwood (pictured)...

Market Harborough takes specialist lending offer into Scotland

Market Harborough Building Society has expanded its lending footprint to include properties in Scotland,...

Paradigm Consulting partners with Comentis on financial vulnerability support

Paradigm Consulting has agreed a new strategic partnership with Comentis aimed at helping advisory...

Landbay adds assisted legals to new five-year fixed Premier remortgage range

Buy-to-let lender Landbay has expanded its Premier range with the launch of new five-year...

The Darlington adds digital BDM role for Wales and South West

Darlington Building Society has appointed Rebecca Russell as digital business development manager for Wales...

Hampshire Trust Bank sharpens buy-to-let pricing at lower LTVs

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has adjusted its buy-to-let pricing on larger loans to better...

Access FS appoints new training and competency manager

Access Financial Services has appointed Sue O’Brien as its new training and competency manager,...

Recognise Bank underlines Scotland lending appetite with Aberdeen student deal

Recognise Bank has completed a £1.96 million commercial property loan to support the refinance...

International buyers hold 203,000 homes

Almost 203,000 homes across England and Wales are owned by international homeowners, with London...

Warm Homes Plan increases pressure on self-managing landlords

The government’s renewed focus on energy efficiency in the private rented sector is expected...

COMMENT

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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Meet the hosts of Mortgage’s Got Talent

As the mortgage industry prepares to swap case discussions, criteria and rates for microphones,...

Complex income must not become barrier to Scottish homeownership

Mortgage lenders need to keep adapting their criteria as changing working patterns leave growing...

LiveMore raises LTV limits and adds flexibility to equity release overpayments

LiveMore has increased maximum LTVs on mortgages with a repayment element and introduced more...

Cost of collapsed property sales rises to £258m in second quarter

Failed property transactions cost the UK housing market an estimated £257.9m during the second...

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