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UK house prices still 7 x average earnings as buyers surge ahead of stamp duty hike

The average UK house price remains over seven times the average of individuals' annual...

House prices post full house of consecutive quarterly growth

The property market finished 2024 on the front foot with the UK market as...

Barclays to cut residential purchase, remortgage and Reward rates

Barclays is reducing mortgage rates across a range of products. The changes will be effective...

Keystone Property Finance issues 10bps rate reductions

Keystone Property Finance has reduced a selection of its buy-to-let rates by 10 basis...

Landlord optimism tempered by regulatory and economic concerns

Landlords across the country remain confident in the buy-to-let market, with many planning to...

London Treasury partners with Pluto Finance to deliver affordable housing

London Treasury Liquidity Fund (LTLF) has announced a £30m investment into private real estate...

Chetwood Bank brands join Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) lender panel

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has partnered with Chetwood Bank. From now, members of the the...

Pure Retirement unveils adviser guide to better lifetime mortgage understanding

Pure Retirement has launched a new guide aimed at improving adviser knowledge of the...

Aspen provides £4.6m Chelsea bridge-to-let

Aspen Bridging has completed a £4.6m bridge-to-let facility for refinance and light works on...

Vaboo launches rewards platform for brokers to boost customer engagement

Vaboo, a customer rewards platform, has expanded its offering to mortgage brokers and independent...

Lendlord publishes Renters’ Rights Bill 2025 landlord hub

Property management and financial platform Lendlord has unveiled a news hub dedicated to the...

Alternative Bridging opens new NW office

Alternative Bridging Corporation has bolstered its presence in the North of England with the...

MT Finance appoints director of bridging

MT Finance Group has promoted Raphael Benggio to director of bridging, effective immediately. Benggio (pictured),...

Stamp duty countdown slows housing market despite rising prices

Britain's housing market experienced its slowest month in over a year this February as...
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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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GB Bank appoints Asim Shirwani to lead new bridging team

GB Bank has appointed Asim Shirwani as head of bridging to lead a new...
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Mortgage searches return to growth in June

Mortgage search activity strengthened during June, according to the latest Mortgage Market Snapshot from...
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North/South rental yield gap narrows

The gap between rental yields in the North and South of England has narrowed...
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UK risks a lost generation of homeowners, warns Yorkshire BS 

Yorkshire Building Society has warned that the UK is at risk of sleepwalking towards...

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