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Amicus quartet scale Atlas height

Four staff members from Amicus Property Finance have completed the ascent of the highest peak...

London & Country considers flotation

The board of directors of London & Country Mortgages have responded to speculation that...

FHL simplifies criteria and reprices limited company deals

Foundation Home Loans has introduced a new range with reduced rates on prime fixed products...

Fleet’s BlackRock arrangement passes £500m mark

Fleet Mortgages has revealed that its relationship with asset manager BlackRock has so far resulted...

Saffron adds interest-only to occupational range

Saffron For Intermediaries is providing interest-only options across its occupational range of loan products. The occupational range...

Prestige Finance simplifies prime offering

Prestige Finance has simplified its mortgage range by creating a single prime range for loans...

May transaction levels down 12% year-on-year

HMRC's provisional seasonally adjusted UK property transaction count for May 2016 was 89,700 residential and...

HSBC unveils 0.99% two-year fix

HSBC has launched a two-year fixed rate mortgage at 0.99%. The deal commands a £1,499 product...

16% have never changed their mortgage

2.5 million people in Britain, equivalent to 16% of all mortgage holders, have never...

ASTL welcomes 35th member

Short-term property finance specialist Avamore Capital has joined the Association of Short Term Lenders...

New presidential teams at ARLA and NAEA

The Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) and National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA)...

Scottish Widows Protect range made more accessible

50% of the UK’s mortgage holders (8.2 million people) have no life cover in place...

43% of brokers adversely affected by referendum

A new poll of over 200 finance brokers operating in the fields of bridging,...

Capricorn agrees five-year extension with Openwork

Openwork has announced that Capricorn Financial, its largest Appointed Representative (AR) by mortgage applications...

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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