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New BTL deals from the Dudley

The Dudley Building Society has unveiled new buy-to-let products. New deals from the intermediary only...

Convey Law awarded IIP gold standard

Convey Law has been named as a leader in people management practice globally, having...

Brexit: FCA issues regulatory statement

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a statement on EU referendum result. The regulator...

Brexit: Carney seeks to reassure markets

The Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has issued a statement following...

Brexit: Sterling badly hit

The value of sterling fell to a 31-year low on currency markets following the vote...

Brexit: Global stock markets in the red

Stock markets around the world have been badly hit by the news that the...

Brexit: Moody’s warns of UK credit downgrade

The UK's decision to leave the European Union will lead to a prolonged period...

Brexit: London housing market to remain disrupted

Richard Donnell, insight director at Hometrack, has expressed his opinion on how Brexit will...

Positive first to use Precise’s bridging AVM

Positive Lending has been able to provide its first ‘same day’ bridging offer by using Precise Mortgage’s...

Shawbrook reduces term loan ERCs

Shawbrook Bank has altered its Early Repayment Charge (ERC) structure, removing the 1% overhang that...

The Skipton cuts two and five-year fixes

The Skipton Building Society has cut rates by up to 0.20 percentage points across selected two and...

TSB expands affordable housing offering and cuts rates

TSB has reduced rates on a range of mortgage products from homemovers and remortgages. It...

Leeds cyclists ride 70 miles for charity

27 cyclists from the Leeds Building Society completed the Great Yorkshire Bike Ride and raised over...

YBS unveils lowest 90% LTV fixed rate

The Yorkshire Building Society has launched the lowest fixed rate mortgage on the market...

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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