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SMEs want to ‘Remain’ – just

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are in favour of the UK remaining in the...

Attractive returns for landlords looking beyond London

LendInvest has looked at opportunities available to landlords who look beyond London and the...

Step One introduces new 6.9% rate 

Step One Finance has announced a update to its product range, with rates starting from 6.9%. The...

National Counties partners with SimplyBiz Mortgages

The National Counties Building Society and the Family Building Society have joined SimplyBiz Mortgages'...

CML Wales chair wants collaboration with government

The chair of the CML in Wales has expressing the importance of collaboration between...

The Skipton cuts new build rates

The Skipton Building Society has cut rates by up to 0.34 percentage points on two-year new...

Lowest 2-year fix launched by the Yorkshire

The Yorkshire Building Society has launched what it says is the lowest fixed rate...

Brightstar reveals EasySource launch date

Brightstar has announced that its specialist sourcing system and case management tool, EasySource, will...

Belmont Green to use Vida Homeloans brand

Belmont Green, the self-styled 'challenger mortgage lender', has confirmed it has trademarked the Vida...

Industry rides to raise £71k for Magic Moments

The Magic Moments Charity raised over £71,000 last month as a result of its...

Equiniti partners with Ocean Finance

Equiniti is to provide its broking technology to Intelligent Lending, operating under the Ocean Finance brand. ...

Consumers “unaware of alternative finance offering”

Research from Together found that almost a half of those surveyed believed that credit rating would...

London equity release loans up 12%

Homeowners in London have released an average of almost £150,000 from their properties to...

OSB posts Q1 trading update

OneSavings Bank plc has reported that net loans and advances grew by £460m during...

COMMENT

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...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

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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...

Hackathons test property data sharing in homebuying push

Proptech firms have tested how property data can be shared across the home-moving process...

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...

MorganAsh urges financial services firms to improve support for unpaid carers

MorganAsh has backed a new Carers UK blueprint aimed at building more carer-friendly communities,...

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