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Asset Advantage to hold broker roadshows on deal structuring around the UK

Asset Advantage is embarking on a series of regional events aimed at helping commercial...

Bank of Ireland for Intermediaries raises income multiples across bespoke mortgages

Bank of Ireland for Intermediaries has increased the maximum loan-to-income available across its Bespoke...

Newcastle for Intermediaries trims PT rates ahead of maturities

Newcastle for Intermediaries has reduced rates across its product transfer range, with pricing now...

Paragon strengthens SME lending push with senior business development hire

Paragon Bank has appointed Richard van Dort as head of business development vendor within...

Furness Building Society partners with Gen H to widen access to homeownership

Furness Building Society has entered into a partnership with residential mortgage lender Gen H...

Yorkshire Building Society members save £2 million after first year of commission-free insurance

Yorkshire Building Society says members have saved more than £2 million in insurance premiums...

Adam Tyler formally takes the helm at the BDLA

Adam Tyler has begun his tenure as chief executive officer of the Bridging &...

HLPartnership strengthens southern recruitment team with senior appointment

HLPartnership (HLP) has appointed Matthew Creswell as senior recruitment manager (South), with responsibility for...

Mid-market real estate lender Pallas Capital launches UK operation

Pallas Capital, a non-bank bridging and development lender with a £1.8 billion loan book,...

Foundation simplifies brand as it drops ‘Home Loans’ from name

Specialist lender Foundation has unveiled a new brand identity, marking what it describes as...

Roma Finance extends buy-to-let lending into Scotland

Roma Finance has launched a buy-to-let product in Scotland, extending a proposition that is...

Afin Bank strengthens regional sales team with two senior BDM appointments

Afin Bank has appointed two senior business development managers as it continues to build...

More2life widens valuation options with Countrywide tie-up

Later life lender more2life has partnered with Countrywide Surveying Services to expand valuation choice...

Right Mortgage renews buy-to-let adviser accreditation programme

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has begun the second year of its buy-to-let...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

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Meet the hosts of Mortgage’s Got Talent

As the mortgage industry prepares to swap case discussions, criteria and rates for microphones,...

Complex income must not become barrier to Scottish homeownership

Mortgage lenders need to keep adapting their criteria as changing working patterns leave growing...

LiveMore raises LTV limits and adds flexibility to equity release overpayments

LiveMore has increased maximum LTVs on mortgages with a repayment element and introduced more...

Cost of collapsed property sales rises to £258m in second quarter

Failed property transactions cost the UK housing market an estimated £257.9m during the second...

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