News

Three-quarters of brokers expect rate hold

76% of specialist brokers expect that the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)...

The Finance Family adopts Acre as platform for growth

Midlands-based The Finance Family has migrated its team of over 20 brokers to Acre’s...

‘Consumer thinking’ holding businesses back from better finance solutions

New research from Time Finance has revealed that many UK businesses default to consumer-style...

British Business Bank reports how pivotal first Covid lockdown was

Five years since the first Covid-19 lockdown, new data from Start Up Loans, part...

London Credit revises website and product guides

Short-term lender London Credit has introduced changes to its website and product guides. The changes...

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) hosts Peer Group event in Kent

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has kicked off 2025 with a successful Peer Group event,...

Standard Life Home Finance improves Horizon lifetime mortgage criteria

Standard Life Home Finance has made a series of changes to the criteria on...

Twenty7tec to address ‘burning issues’ in webinars

Twenty7tec has launched a new webinar series, bringing together industry figures to debate the...

Gen H launches affordability-focused mortgage scheme

Residential mortgage lender Gen H has announced the launch of New Build Boost, which...

Seven out of 10 homebuyers likely to miss stamp duty deadline

Seven out of 10 (71%) homebuyers with accepted offers expect to miss the 31st...

First-time buyer mortgage sales declined in London over the past decade

First-time buyer mortgage sales in London declined significantly between 2013 and 2023, as increasing...

UTB appoints BDM for the north and Scotland

Fran Arnold has joined the sales team at United Trust Bank Mortgages as business...

International demand for UK property investment ‘more diverse than expected’

The UK property market is attracting investment from a much broader range of international...

Accord Mortgages makes widespread buy-to-let cuts

Accord Mortgages is reducing rates across to its buy-to-let product range by up to...
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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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Homebuying

Housing market slowdown shows signs of easing, says RICS

The UK housing market continued to show weak momentum in June, although the latest...
Technology

Novus Strategy to host Digital Disruption Live event

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

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