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Deepbridge boosts London team

Tax-efficient investment specialists Deepbridge Capital has appointed Mark Holman as business development manager (BDM)...

Target reports 11% rise in turnover

Target Group has reported a third consecutive year of growth in its annual results. The...

Shawbrook introduces bridging fixed rates

Shawbrook Commercial Mortgages has updated its pricing for short term and regulated bridging product...

HSBC offers 2.79% 10-year deal

HSBC has today launched a 10-year fixed mortgage at 2.79%, available for purchases and remortgages...

Lender partners with Brilliant Solutions before launch

Bluestone Mortgages is partnering with specialist distributor Brilliant Solutions. The arrangement will see Bluestone...

Barclays cuts fixed rates

Barclays is cutting mortgage rates tomorrow (8 July) across its two, three, five and...

Halifax: pace of house growth may be easing

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to June were 8.4%...

Paradigm Protect expands Elite Choice Protection panel

Paradigm Protect, the directly authorised protection proposition linked to Paradigm Mortgage Services and Paradigm...

Coventry for Intermediaries launches 2.39% 10-year fix

Coventry for Intermediaries is expanding its range of 10-year fixed rate residential mortgages tomorrow...

Borro becomes full member of the ASTL

Borro has upgraded its associate membership to become a full member of the Association...

Financial Services Consumer Panel chair reappointed

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reappointed Sue Lewis as chair of the Financial...

New funding line for Non-Standard Finance lender

Loans at Home, part of Non-Standard Finance plc, has secured a new £10m revolving...

CSC Loans completes Together’s largest second charge BTL

Master broker CSC Loans has completed a £1.435 million second charge buy-to-let loan with...

Coventry for Intermediaries tweaks BTL rental calculation

Coventry for Intermediaries is adjusting its buy-to-let lending policy in advance of the changes to...

COMMENT

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...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

Latest news

Chancellor presses lenders to expand support for borrowers ahead of rate resets

The government has secured fresh commitments from major lenders to step up engagement with...

Suffolk BS tops £800m in mortgage assets after strong 2025 growth

Suffolk Building Society has passed £800m of mortgage assets for the first time after...

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...

Foundation returns with revised buy-to-let and residential mortgage range

Foundation has returned to the market with a revised product range across both buy-to-let...

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