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Iress expands equity release functionality as advisers seek deeper data

Iress has upgraded its equity release service on The Exchange in response to rising...

Vida eases criteria to widen access to homeownership

Vida Homeloans has introduced two changes to its lending criteria aimed at increasing flexibility...

Most workers say employment boosts their health and wellbeing

A new survey suggests the majority of UK workers believe their jobs have a...

Helen Walsh promoted to marketing director at Afin Bank

Afin Bank has promoted Helen Walsh to marketing director little more than a year...

Recognise Bank backs Essex developer with £1.98m exit loan

Recognise Bank has completed a £1.98m development exit facility to help an Essex housebuilder...

Simplybiz opens post-Budget Advice Show to wider market amid rising uncertainty

Simplybiz will open its post-Budget Advice Show to all financial services professionals for the...

Rents rise twice as fast as house prices

Private rents are continuing to rise at nearly double the pace of house prices...

Arc & Co. and Paragon complete £10.36m loan for Jewellery Quarter scheme

A regional developer has secured funding for a new 53-home scheme in Birmingham’s historic...

Advice ‘critical’ as 95% of clients say it keeps them on track

Professional financial advice is playing an increasingly important role in helping households meet long-term...

PM Data Services launch Genie buy-to-let sourcing engine

PM Data Services – the team behind digital broker Property Master - has launched...

GIS must be at the heart of place-based policymaking

The UK is under increasing pressure to deliver more homes, strengthen national infrastructure, and...

Mortgage chiefs warn MPs on affordability squeeze

Senior mortgage industry figures have warned MPs that Britain’s worsening home-affordability challenge will not...

Mortgage Brain adds Rely to sourcing platform

Mortgage Brain has added OSB Group’s newly launched buy-to-let lender, Rely, to its Sourcing...

Assetz Capital strikes £150m funding deal with Cambridge & Counties Bank

Assetz Capital has agreed a funding facility of up to £150 million with Cambridge...
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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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