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Gen H pushes into new build market with 90% LTV lending offer

Gen H has unveiled a significant expansion of its mortgage offering with the launch...

Foundation Home Loans expands Property Plus with short-term lets

Foundation Home Loans has made a significant update to its Property Plus range, introducing...

Conveyancing Association bolsters leadership team with new director appointments

The Conveyancing Association has confirmed the appointment of two new board members, with Rhodri...

First-time buyers claim bigger slice of mortgage market as conditions ease

First-time buyers are taking a significantly larger share of the mortgage market, according to...

Buckinghamshire BS boosts Credit Restore LTV to 75%

Buckinghamshire Building Society has increased the maximum loan-to-value on its Credit Restore mortgage range...

Gable Mortgages launches zero-deposit products to support first-time buyers

Gable Mortgages has entered the UK market with the launch of two zero-deposit mortgage...

Aspen Bridging cut rates by up to 72bps following MPC decision

Aspen Bridging has unveiled a sweeping set of rate reductions across its product range,...

LHV Bank completes £5m refinancing for specialist care home assets

LHV Bank has completed a £5 million commercial real estate facility to refinance two...

InterBay backs £5.3m acquisition of London teaching site

Specialist lender InterBay has provided £5.3m in finance to support the purchase of a...

Afin Bank selects Nivo to streamline broker communication

Afin Bank, the new entrant to the UK mortgage market backed by African reinsurer...

Landbay slashes buy-to-let rates by up to 80bps

Landbay has announced a significant round of rate reductions across its buy-to-let product range,...

Robin Jeffery appointed as CTO at Phoebus Software

Phoebus Software has named Robin Jeffery as its new chief technology officer, as the...

Homebuyers call for urgent digital reform as frustration with property process mounts

A major new report published today by the Open Property Data Association (OPDA) reveals...

Suros Capital uses gold to swiftly fund property developer’s renovation

Luxury asset lender Suros Capital has revealed details of a recent transaction in which...

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Approvals hit a 2.5-year low: When broker value gets proven – or missed

Net mortgage approvals dropped to 56,200 in May – the lowest since December 2023 - down from 66,000 the month before. Net borrowing fell from...

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...

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Nationwide cuts mortgage rates across fixed and tracker range

Nationwide has cut mortgage rates across its fixed-rate range and reduced selected tracker products. The...

Top proptech providers join forces

Four of the UK’s leading Proptech providers – LMS, Landmark Information Group, InfoTrack and...

Landbay launches new remortgage AVM products

Buy-to-let lender, Landbay, has launched new premier remortgage AVM two-year fixed-rate products and reduced...

Second charge boost as industry veterans launch Flamingo Money

Two experienced specialist finance professionals have launched a new secured loans and second charge...

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