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Market Financial Solutions intensifies training push across specialist lending sector

Market Financial Solutions has underlined its commitment to raising educational standards across the specialist...

The Cumberland joins L&G’s Ignite platform to widen broker access

L&G’s Ignite platform has added Cumberland Building Society as a lender partner, expanding broker...

The Exeter adds Real Life to iPipeline’s Advanced Underwriting platform

The Exeter has added its Real Life product to iPipeline’s newly launched Advanced Underwriting...

Metro Bank halves minimum buy-to-let loan size to widen access

Metro Bank has cut its minimum buy-to-let loan size from £100,000 to £50,000 as...

Paragon finances 95-home later-living scheme at Beaconsfield

Paragon Bank has agreed a £30 million facility to support Beechcroft’s delivery of 95...

Access FS names members of new Equality Council

Access Financial Services, where nine in every 10 advisers come from minority backgrounds, has...

Bridging sector enters 2026 with rising confidence, research suggests

Four in every five intermediaries expect their confidence in the bridging market to increase...

Asset finance demand expected to lead SME funding needs through 2026

Asset finance is set to dominate SME funding demand in the next 12 months,...

Barclays cuts mortgage rates across remortgage and existing customer ranges

Barclays has reduced a wide selection of mortgage rates, with several products now dropping...

Just Mortgages strengthens self-employed recruitment team with senior hire

Just Mortgages has expanded its self-employed recruitment operation with the appointment of Sascha Mason...

The Loughborough overhauls adverse lending range

Loughborough Building Society has reshaped its adverse lending proposition in an effort to give...

Newcastle cuts two-year residential rates amid demand for shorter fixes

Newcastle for Intermediaries has cut rates across its two-year residential range for both purchases...

Virgin Money cuts fixed rates and withdraws Retrofit Boost and Own New deals

Virgin Money is reducing selected fixed rates across purchase, remortgage and product transfer ranges...

LendInvest reports stronger profitability in H1

LendInvest has reported a rise in profitability and lending activity in its half-year results...
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COMMENT

Comment

The fall in BTL company formations isn’t the whole story

It is often the case with housing and mortgage market data that the headline figure attracts most of the attention, while some of the...

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...

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Government commits to licensing property agents but detail remains unclear

The government has committed to mandatory licensing and qualifications for property agents as part...
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Meet the hosts of Mortgage’s Got Talent

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Octane revives specialist buy-to-let range with loans up to £15m

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