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Vida improves affordability for specialist borrowers

Vida Homeloans has unveiled a series of changes to its mortgage range aimed at...

Pivotal Growth strengthens national presence with two ‘bolt-on’ acquisitions

Pivotal Growth has expanded its UK footprint with the acquisitions of More Choice Financial...

Fleet unveils Renters’ Rights Bill guide for advisers and landlords

Fleet Mortgages has launched a new guide designed to help advisers and landlords prepare...

Allica Bank signs sponsorship deal with teenage racing driver

Allica Bank has agreed a two-year sponsorship deal with 16-year-old racing driver Daniella Sutton,...

More than half of landlords plan portfolio expansion

More than half of buy-to-let landlords intend to grow their portfolios in the coming...

Phoebus secures ISO recertification to bolster SaaS security resilience

Phoebus has renewed its ISO 27001 accreditation, achieving recertification to the updated 2022 standard...

Homes priced too high take twice as long to sell

Homes listed above market value take more than twice as long to sell, Zoopla...

Computershare and The DPS extend support to youth homelessness charity

Computershare Loan Services and The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) have made their fifth...

Brickflow adds VAT bridging loans to platform through BloomSmith partnership

Brickflow has partnered with BloomSmith to offer VAT bridging loans for commercial property purchases,...

Assetz Capital cuts refurb and dev exit loan rates

Assetz Capital has repriced its refurbishment, regeneration and development exit loans, with all borrower...

London Credit strengthens Midlands presence with new BDM hire

London Credit has expanded its regional footprint with the appointment of Sophie Jones-Trutwein as...

Keystone joins LMS Panel Link to widen conveyancing access

Keystone Property Finance has become the latest lender to adopt LMS’s Panel Link and...

The Darlington relaunches foreign currency mortgages

Darlington Building Society has reintroduced foreign currency mortgages to its intermediary range, to support...

Mortgage Guarantee Scheme supported over 56,000 loans before closure

The government’s Mortgage Guarantee Scheme, which ended in June this year, supported more than...

COMMENT

A new PM brings a new opportunity to rethink housing policy

Politics, as it seems to do in recent times, has moved at remarkable speed over the last couple of weeks. In what feels like...

With great power comes great responsibility

There has been a huge amount in the press about the “feudal” system of leasehold and how the government’s revitalised commonhold will fix all...

Don’t rein me in

For many years, major financial institutions and large retailers have understood the benefits of presenting their customers with complementary products alongside their core offering. Banks...

More questions now surround the home moving digital journey

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has published its highly anticipated Home Buying and Selling Reform Roadmap, representing the most aggressive...

Stability has value: why the latest Bank Base Rate hold matters

The Bank of England's decision to maintain Bank Base Rate (BBR) at 3.75% may not have generated the excitement that often accompanies a rate...

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A new PM brings a new opportunity to rethink housing policy

Politics, as it seems to do in recent times, has moved at remarkable speed...

PEXA UK appoints CEOs as Joe Pepper steps down

PEXA UK chief executive Joe Pepper will step down at the end of June,...

LendInvest launches semi-commercial BTL lending products

LendInvest has launched a new semi-commercial proposition within its range of buy-to-let products. The lender’s...

more2life urges FCA to mandate signposting of all later life lending products

more2life chief executive Dave Harris has called on the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to...

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