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Access FS launches new mentoring scheme

Access Financial Services has formally launched a new mentoring programme designed to support recently...

Novium adds L&G’s critical illness cover to sourcing platform

Advisers using Novium’s protection sourcing platform can now quote Legal & General’s critical illness...

Market Harborough broadens tier two mortgage criteria to boost complex case lending

Market Harborough Building Society has introduced a series of criteria enhancements to its tier...

Coventry for intermediaries reduces rates across residential and buy-to-let ranges

Coventry for intermediaries has announced rate cuts of up to 19 basis points, with...

Halifax cuts remortgage rates across selected two and five-year fixed deals

Halifax Intermediaries has announced a series of rate cuts across its remortgage product range,...

The Leeds reports £104m profit amid robust lending and savings growth

Leeds Building Society has reported a profit before tax of £104.4 million for the...

Annual house price growth picks up as affordability improves

The UK housing market showed renewed resilience in July, with house prices rising by...

BDLA partners with Synectics Solutions to launch early fraud warning system

The Bridging & Development Lenders Association (BDLA) has launched a bespoke early warning system...

Job cuts to inflation shock: preparing for a mortgage arrears crisis

The latest data on jobs paints a picture of a rapidly weakening labour market. The...

Afin Bank added to Brilliant Solutions panel

Afin Bank has joined the lender panel of Brilliant Solutions Mortgage Club and Packaging...

The Mortgage Works cuts 2 & 5-year rates

The Mortgage Works has cut rates across selected two and five-year fixed products, with...

Firms urged to digitise customer vulnerability to meet FCA targeted support rules

Firms must act swiftly to digitise their approach to customer vulnerability if they are...

UK property transactions rebound sharply in June as market regains momentum

UK property transactions surged in June pointing to renewed confidence in the housing and...

NatWest Group enters buy-to-let through Landbay partnership

NatWest Group has announced a strategic move into the buy-to-let mortgage market through a...
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Homebuying

Removing friction from the homebuying journey

One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...

Build, baby, build? Well we will need to fund more than the usual suspects

There was a noticeable sense of optimism at UKREiiF this year. That may sound surprising given the economic headwinds of recent years, but the...

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market riding high

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market has created real value for customers – there’s no excuse to ignore it. When a UK borrower reaches 55,...

How small and medium-sized lenders can fix the origination headache

We are constantly told that to fix the mortgage journey, we need to rip everything out and start again. That unless a lender replaces its...

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...

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MT Finance latest firm to offer World Cup time off

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Broker optimism grows as sub-4% rates edge closer

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ModaMortgages cuts rates across limited-edition BTL range

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