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Market Financial Solutions upsizes £1 billion of funding lines

Market Financial Solutions has upsized and extended multiple institutional funding lines, securing up to...

PDG welcomes FCA market study on pure protection products

The Protection Distributors Group (PDG) has responded positively to the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA)...

Precise launches its highest ever LTV products and slashes residential rates

Precise has made a range of improvements to its residential proposition with cheaper pricing...

L&C and Winston’s Wish mark 10-year partnership and £100k raised

L&C Mortgages as reached another significant milestone in its long-standing partnership with Winston’s Wish,...

Sorting it out! Big law firm celebrates five years of growth in Cardiff

Sort Legal, part of the Sort Group, is celebrating its fifth year in Cardiff. Sort...

Mortgage campaigner and Labour MP Taiwo Owatemi faces backlash over ‘Pet Rent’ expense claims

Labour MP and mortgage campaigner Taiwo Owatemi is under fire after revelations surfaced that...

HLPartnership adds trio of providers to GI panel

HLPartnership (HLP) is expanding its general insurance (GI) panel. Following feedback from its brokers, the...

Santander cuts affordability rates following FCA guidance

Santander UK has become the first major lender to reduce its residential mortgage affordability...

Over-60s own almost £3 trillion in property

Those in the UK aged over 65 own outright £2.944 trillion in property wealth,...

Swansea BS celebrates longest-serving employee’s 35-year milestone

Swansea Building Society is celebrating a significant moment in its history as Julie Keane,...

Four out of 10 first-time buyers face stamp duty bill

Thousands of first-time buyers in England will face higher upfront costs when purchasing a...

UK property transactions surged in February ahead of stamp duty deadline

The number of UK residential property transactions saw a significant increase in February 2025,...

Atom bank simplifies commercial mortgage stressed interest rate

Atom bank has improved its variable stressed interest rate calculation for commercial mortgages. This move,...

TRM network makes key promotions

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network (TRM) has made a series of important leadership...
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Politics

Is Andy Burnham the New Messiah or just Starmer with better eyebrows?

What a damning indictment of Labour that Andy Burnham appears to be strolling towards the leadership in what looks less like a contest and...

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,...

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Buy-to-let

Foundation reduces BTL rates by up to 0.25%

Foundation, the intermediary-only specialist lender, has reduced rates across its buy-to-let range by up...
Later Life

Hodge Bank partners with Mortgage Broker Tools

The partnership means Mortgage Broker Tools’ broker members can now access Hodge’s specialist mortgage...
First-time buyers

Cambridge BS opens up 98% LTV to all brokers

The Cambridge Building Society is making its 98% LTV first-time-buyer product available to all...
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Barclays latest lender to cut rates

Barclays is the latest lender to lower its mortgage rates, reducing selected residential products...

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