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Mortgage applications rise as lenders drive competition, says Stonebridge

Mortgage applications rose 7% year-on-year in October as borrowers continued to respond to falling...

Brokers report surge in limited company buy-to-let demand

Three-quarters of brokers have seen growing demand for limited company buy-to-let products over the...

Affordability concerns dominate as brokers ramp up criteria searches

Lenders made more than 5,200 criteria updates in October, according to Knowledge Bank’s latest...

Paradigm launches eighth annual ‘Reverse Advent’ campaign to support food banks

Paradigm has launched its eighth annual ‘Help Fight Hunger’ Reverse Advent charity drive, calling...

LHV Bank strengthens lending team with new director appointment

LHV Bank has expanded its UK lending team with the appointment of Callum Livingstone...

Redwood Bank extends commercial mortgage terms and eases affordability tests

Redwood Bank has made a series of changes to its commercial investment and owner-occupier...

Major brand revamp as OSB Group launches Rely and signals Kent Reliance retirement

OSB Group has launched Rely, a new specialist buy-to-let lender aimed at supporting brokers...

Time Finance lending book reaches record £230m

Time Finance has reported its lending portfolio has reached an all-time high of £230...

London property market worth £2.6 trillion as affordability pressures curb price growth

The combined value of homes across London has surged to £2.64 trillion, according to...

LSL appoints Serco’s David Tilak as Chief Financial Officer

LSL Property Services has appointed David Tilak as its new Chief Financial Officer and...

Credas joins drive for digital trust in homebuying as it becomes latest OPDA member

Credas, has joined the Open Property Data Association (OPDA) - the cross-industry group seeking...

Buyer demand rises but market “engine not yet running smoothly”

Fresh figures from Propertymark show encouraging signs of activity in the UK housing market...

Asset Advantage broadens SME funding options with two new business loan products

Asset Advantage has expanded its support for UK small and medium-sized enterprises with the...

Reallymoving bolsters senior leadership team

Reallymoving has strengthened its leadership team with a C-suite promotion and senior appointment as...
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One mortgage journey no longer fits every borrower

In the mortgage market, we have lots of different ways of describing customers depending on where they are in their lives. We talk about...

Closing the protection gap starts with informed clients

Millions of people have no protection insurance coverage and could be left vulnerable in the event of a death in the family, serious illness...

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...

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