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Paragon simplifies application process for smaller landlords

Paragon Bank has unveiled a simplified buy-to-let mortgage application process for landlords with portfolios...

House price growth eases, reports Nationwide

UK house prices rose by 2.1% in the year to June, down from 3.5%...

VAS launches lender API to streamline valuation workflow

Valuation panel management firm VAS has unveiled a new lender API that promises to...

West One launches commercial mortgage market pilot

Specialist lender West One has announced its entry into the commercial mortgage market. The new...

YesCanDo Money named as second firm to join Habito’s new broker accelerator

Mortgage brokerage YesCanDo Money has been selected as the second firm to join the...

Zephyr trims rates on two and five-year buy-to-let deals

Zephyr Homeloans has announced a series of rate reductions across its buy-to-let mortgage range,...

Hope Capital doubles Shawbrook facility after record growth period

Hope Capital has secured an enhanced funding facility with Shawbrook Bank, marking the latest...

Manchester start-up turns festival waste into fashion with BBB backing

A Manchester entrepreneur has launched a sustainable fashion brand that transforms discarded tents from...

HSBC Life UK joins Protection Distributors Group claims charter

HSBC Life UK has been confirmed as a signatory of the Protection Distributors Group’s...

Premier Property Lawyers moves to new hybrid hub in Manchester city centre

Premier Property Lawyers, part of the Simplify group, has relocated to a new hybrid...

Investors turn to refurbishment finance as funding becomes cheaper

Property investors are increasingly turning to refurbishment finance to accelerate renovation projects and mitigate...

Vida enhances affordability criteria and launches new BTL range

Vida Homeloans has introduced a significant overhaul to its residential affordability assessments. The change is...

Barclays reduces residential purchase and remortgage rates

Barclays is introducing further reductions across its residential mortgage range, with revised rates taking...

Mortgage market begins to stir as approvals rise in May

Mortgage lending staged a modest recovery in May, according to new data from the...
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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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ModaMortgages cuts rates across limited-edition BTL range

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