News

Aldermore calls for stamp duty holiday and revival of Help to Build

Aldermore has called for an 18-month Stamp Duty holiday for buyers of new homes...

Word On The Street secures £5.6m GB Bank buy-to-let refinance

Word On The Street has arranged a £5.6m buy-to-let refinance with GB Bank for...

Right Mortgage Network launches Business Leaders Risk Forum

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has announced its first Business Leaders Risk Forum,...

Allica boosts SME mortgage appetite and launches cashback offer

Allica Bank has refreshed its owner-occupier mortgage appetite as it looks to help established...

UTB and Brightstar deliver £200k second-charge refurb loan to keep home extension on track

United Trust Bank (UTB) and Brightstar Financial have completed a £200,000 regulated second-charge light...

Assetz Capital cuts rates as developers pivot to conversions amid deepening planning delays

Assetz Capital has reduced pricing across its refurbishment, regeneration and development-exit loans with borrower...

Accord Mortgage cuts buy-to-let rates

Accord Mortgages is reducing rates on its buy-to range this week by up to...

Older renters face rising retirement costs, warns Suffolk Building Society

Suffolk Building Society has highlighted the mounting financial pressure on older renters, warning that...

MorganAsh backs new CII guidance on supporting vulnerable customers

MorganAsh has welcomed the publication of new customer vulnerability guidance from the Chartered Insurance...

Mera backs £18m refurbishment of ultra-prime London penthouse

Mera Investment Management has completed an £18 million residential refurbishment facility for a one-of-a-kind...

Roma Finance partnership to guide contractors into property development

Roma Finance has become the official lending partner for Rise Up Development’s education programme,...

First2Protect unveils Acturis-built broker portal to streamline insurance referrals

First2Protect has launched a new broker portal designed to give mortgage advisers a faster...

AFIG launches nationwide Broker Club for specialist finance brokers

AFIG Ltd has launched the Broker Club, a new initiative designed to reshape the...

Millions turn to borrowing and policy cancellations to manage financial shocks

New research shows millions of people have been forced to borrow or cut back...
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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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Higher mortgage rates put buyers in driving seat as sales fall

Higher mortgage rates have pushed buyers firmly into the driving seat, with agreed sales...
Appointments

Stent to take over as MAB finance chief as Imlach leaves board

Mortgage Advice Bureau has confirmed Jo Stent will become group chief financial officer and...
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Virgin Money raises residential fixed rates by up to 0.20%

Virgin Money is increasing a range of residential purchase, remortgage and product transfer fixed...
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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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