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HML supports FSA position over arrears and repossessions

HML has endorsed the FSA's approach in its recent thematic review of arrears management...

Promise placed on Pink panel

Pink Home Loans has added Promise Solutions to its secured loan panel. Neil Hoare, sales...

Will writing service well received by Brilliant members

Brilliant Mortgages, the Exclusive Connections mortgage club, has just completed a series of roadshows. The...

Bridging lender added to Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added West One Loans to its bridging lending panel. Members of...

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Four firms wound up following Insolvency Service investigation

Four companies providing estate agency, sales, lettings and mortgage advice have been wound up...

Hodge Lifetime offers free surveys

Falling house prices are causing increased popularity in home reversions, according to Hodge Lifetime. The...

Crown takes over commercial portfolio servicing

Crown Mortgage Management has been called under standby to service a £1 billion securitized...

First direct unveils BBR plus 2.48% tracker

First direct has launched what it claims is a market leading offset tracker mortgage. It...

Massive shake-up at Cattles

Following the completion of an independent forensic review, Cattles has sacked five key executives. On...

Welcome Car Finance to shut

Cattles is to close its direct distribution car retailer, Welcome Car Finance. The board told...

Cattles’ shares suspended

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has temporarily suspended Cattles' securities from the Official List...

Cattles shares slump after accountancy error warning

Embattled sub-prime lender Cattles has admitted that there has been a breakdown in internal...

Cattles suspends new lending at Welcome

Cattles has "temporarily" suspending lending to new customers in Welcome Finance with immediate effect....

COMMENT

Should mortgage advisers consider the emerging secondary market for life policies?

Mortgage advisers regularly help clients navigate major life changes. While much of the focus is naturally on borrowing, refinancing and insurance, there is another...

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...

Latest news

Barclays hikes mortgage rates for second time in a week

Barclays is increasing fixed mortgage rates for the second time this week as rising...

LendInvest removes ERCs and cuts rates across buy-to-let tracker range

LendInvest has revamped its buy-to-let tracker mortgage range, removing early repayment charges and increasing...

Cream sets out four steps to narrow protection gap

Cream Financial Solutions has called for greater use of specialist referrals and changes to...

Smart Money People seeks broker views for latest lender benchmark

Smart Money People has opened its H2 2026 Mortgage Lender Benchmark survey, inviting UK...

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