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Keystone Property Finance joins Mortgage Intelligence and Next Intelligence panels

Keystone Property Finance has been added to Mortgage Intelligence (MI) and Next Intelligence’s (NI)...

New research reveals UK workers’ top financial worries

As Debt Awareness Week begins (24–30 March), new research from WEALTH at work has...

HREF provides £27m loan for hotel group

Hilco Real Estate Finance (HREF) has completed a £27m loan facility to Gibraltar-based investor...

Family BS expands mortgage range and eases JBSP criteria

Family Building Society has launched a refreshed range of mortgage products and made several...

Housing affordability returns to pre-pandemic levels

Housing affordability in England and Wales has returned to levels last seen before the...

Saffron Building Society joins LMS Panel Link

LMS, the provider of conveyancing services, has announced a new partnership with Saffron Building...

Tenant awareness wildly varied on Renters’ Rights Bill

New research from Pegasus Insight has revealed a wide disparity in tenant awareness of...

Loughborough BS unveils Universal Credit Calculator

Loughborough Building Society has launched its Universal Credit Calculator to help brokers assess affordability...

United Trust Bank appoints head of credit for asset finance

United Trust Bank has announced the appointment of Lisa Thomas as head of credit...

Acre enhances Nationwide integration

Acre has announced a significant upgrade to its integration with Nationwide for Intermediaries, expanding...

Law Society overhauls TA6 Property Forms: What mortgage brokers need to know

The Law Society of England and Wales has announced a major revision to the...

Access FS launches internal referral scheme

Access Financial Services is launching Access All Areas, a new internal referral programme. The brokerage is...

Spring Statement 2025: industry hopes and expectations

Ahead of the government's Spring Statement on Wednesday, industry figures have proffered their opinions...

Nationwide improves NFI Online processes

Nationwide Building Society has made improvements to several processes within NFI Online. These cover client...

COMMENT

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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Novus Strategy to host Digital Disruption Live event

Lenders and mortgage experts will explore how Home Buying Reform and Smart Data are...

Just one in ten FTBs pay Stamp Duty in the North

Just one in ten first-time buyers pay Stamp Duty in the North, compared to...

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...

Hodge Bank partners with Mortgage Broker Tools

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

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