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Stamp Duty hike behind rise in new rentals

There was an 11.5% increase in new rental properties being listed in April, compared...

Kensington cuts buy-to-let mortgage rates

Kensington Mortgages has reducing the rates on buy-to-let products carrying a percentage fee by 25...

L&G Mortgage Club offers secured loan sourcing

Legal & General Mortgage Club has partnered with Twenty7Tec to provide brokers with a...

Accord adjusts household expenditure estimates

Accord has made changes its affordability criteria, in a move which it believes will improve...

Virgin Money unveils rate cuts

Virgin Money has made a number of rate reductions on selected products.  Key changes to the...

19% fall in house purchase approvals

There was a slowdown in house purchase approvals last month, according to the latest...

NAEA backs beneficial ownership register

The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) has welcomed the decision by the government...

SimplyBiz Mortgages offers Hinckley & Rugby exclusive

SimplyBiz Mortgages has launched a 90% LTV three year fixed rate exclusive through Hinckley...

Ultimate Finance makes key appointment in Scotland

Ultimate Finance has appointed Jennifer McGuffie as regional director in its Glasgow office. McGuffie (pictured) spent eight years in...

Connect adds Kensington to panel

Connect for Intermediaries has become the latest specialist distributor to partner with Kensington. The specialist...

Google to ban payday loan ads

Google says it is banning ads for payday loans and some related products from...

MPC holds the bank rate

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has once again voted unanimously to...

Advisers concerned over long-term BTL prospects

There has been a small rise in the volume of buy-to-let business being written...

CML: repossession rate “lowest on record”

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that the number of repossessions in...
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Stamp Duty

Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for stimulus, this time: abolish stamp duty. The logic feels intuitive -...

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

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Stamp Duty

Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for...
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LendInvest bolsters residential and BTL broker support with Glasgow team expansion

LendInvest has expanded its commercial support team with a particular focus on helping brokers...
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Hackathons test property data sharing in homebuying push

Proptech firms have tested how property data can be shared across the home-moving process...
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Foundation refreshes buy-to-let range with new products and rate cuts

Foundation has refreshed its buy-to-let mortgage range with new products and rate reductions across...

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