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UK steel threat could worsen repossession figures

HML has stated that repossession rates for UK homes will remain low so far...

Interest-only fuelling equity release rise

Key Retirement has reported a significant increase in sales of lump sum equity release...

OneFamily’s lifetime mortgages launch

OneFamily has revealed that the two new lifetime mortgage products announced last month have now gone...

Secured lenders back Y3S’s golf day

Packager Y3S is holding its third annual Golf Day on Thursday 7 July at the Celtic Manor...

Paradigm produces buy-to-let factsheet

Paradigm Mortgage Services has published an adviser factsheet on the recent developments and forthcoming changes...

LGMC unveils second charge direct proposition

Legal & General Mortgage Club (LGMC) is launching a direct-to-lender proposition for second charge...

Trio of lenders integrate with APAC’s mortgage software

Precise Mortgages, Shawbrook Bank and Together have become the first three lenders to begin to...

Kent Reliance revamps core mortgage offering

Kent Reliance has made a number of changes to its product range. The lender...

LendInvest pulls development finance exit fee

LendInvest has removed the exit fee charged on development finance deals. A 2% fee was until...

Hinckley & Rugby makes privileged cut

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has reduced the interest rate on a five-year fixed rate...

3mc behind Kensington’s first packaged case

3mc has generated Kensington’s first packaged case to go to offer since the lender returned...

The Mortgage Partnership expands BTL panel

The Mortgage Partnership (TMP) has added Foundation Home Loans (FHL) to its panel of...

Nationwide to cut selected higher LTV fixed rates

The Nationwide Building Society is cutting selected fixed rate mortgages at 85, 90 and 95% loan-to-value (LTV)...

Kent Reliance joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has revealed that Kent Reliance has become the latest lender to...

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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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