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Record month for Mint Bridging

Mint Bridging has revealed that it completed 21 loans in one day, alongside a record month of...

The DPS and Tenant Shop team up

The Deposit Protection Service (DPS) and Tenant Shop are to collaborate to “make life easier...

Paymentshield expands landlord insurance panel

Paymentshield has announced the appointment of AXA Insurance to its landlords insurance panel. AXA currently operates...

TMA to hold nationwide conferences

TMA is holding a number of mortgage roadshows for directly authorised (DA) advisers in four...

LV=: risk of pensions ‘mis-buying’ scandal

12 months on from the start of the so-called "pension freedoms", research from LV= reveals that...

The Leeds changes interest-only criteria

The Leeds Building Society has made improvements to its interest-only mortgage range. The mutual will now...

The Source adds Landlord Plus to panel

Source Insurance has added an additional specialist landlord property insurance product onto its panel....

V Loans feels benefit from LSL tie-up

Secured loan packager V Loans says it has seen broker registrations treble following its...

Belmont Green hires sales director for seconds

New mortgage lending operation Belmont Green Finance Limited has recruited Simon Burnell as its director of...

Paragon changes limited company lending criteria

Paragon Mortgages has made changes to its lending criteria for limited company landlords. The follows...

Major flood insurance scheme launches

An insurance scheme designed to help people who live in flood risk areas get...

TFC Homeloans moves to Manchester

TFC Homeloans has relocated its head office to Manchester city centre, within minutes of...

Majority of landlords unphased by BTL crackdown

52% of buy-to-let landlords expect the recent changes to stamp duty and buy-to-let mortgage tax...

New guide for would-be ‘care advisers’

Partnership has launched a new guide for advisers who are considering operating in the...

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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The Cambridge relaunches interest-only fixed rate mortgages

The Cambridge has relaunched a selection of fixed rate mortgage products, including interest-only options...

Vernon BS adds free legals to selected remortgage deals

Vernon Building Society has partnered with Optimus to introduce a free legals service on...

Paragon launches tailored buy-to-let service for complex cases

Paragon Bank has launched a Tailored service to support buy-to-let mortgage applications that fall...

Castle Trust Bank adds AVMs to buy-to-let applications

Castle Trust Bank has introduced automated valuation models on eligible buy-to-let cases as part...

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