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Landlords shrug off stamp duty hike as market adjusts

A month after Labour’s first Budget raised the stamp duty surcharge (SDLT) on second...

British Friendly unveils new health and wellbeing app

British Friendly has launched a new health and wellbeing app called Symbio. The app, which...

Vida cuts residential and BTL rates by up to 26bps

Vida Homeloans has made reductions across its whole product range. It has also improved its...

Green landlords still have more to do

25% of landlords accessing loans through Redwood Bank already have energy-efficient properties, the lender...

iPipeline replatforms Beagle Street’s D2C protection proposition

IPipeline has completed the replatforming and launch of Beagle Street’s direct-to-consumer protection proposition onto...

Swansea Building Society supports local foodbanks

Swansea Building Society has donated £3,000 to foodbanks across South Wales this Christmas. The mutual...

Private equity firm takes minority stake in United Trust Bank

United Trust Bank (UTB) has revealed that an agreement has been reached between its...

Keystone Property Finance the first lender to use Method-VM’s new API integration

Method-VM, the valuation and development monitoring panel management firm, has completed the development of...

SBG appoints DA distribution director

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has appointed Claire Cherrington as Directly Authorised (DA) distribution director,...

Aspen provides £1m no valuation bridging loan

Aspen has completed a £1.14m 'no valuation' bridging loan in three weeks on a...

Loughborough BS adds ‘savings boost’ to later life lending offering

Loughborough Building Society has made a criteria change to its lending in retirement proposition...

White Rose Finance Group adds Dudley BS to lender panel

Dudley Building Society has partnered with White Rose Finance Group, having been added to...

Brick by Brick: Rightmove predicts 2025 housing market to build on optimism

Rightmove is predicting a 4% rise in national average asking prices for 2025 –...

Landlords abandon Labour over policies

A new survey has found that the majority of landlords who voted Labour in...
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Housing reform needs a thriving private rental sector, not just a thriving sales and purchase market

One of the most encouraging developments over recent weeks has been the renewed focus on improving the homebuying and selling process. The Government's plans to...

The economics of developing the next generation of advisers

Over the past couple of decades, I have worked alongside literally thousands of AR and DA firms, from businesses employing one or two advisers...

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...

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Swap rates fall but funding risks remain, warns Moneyfacts

In a week that saw more than 20 lenders reduce their fixed mortgage rates,...
First-time buyers

Growing calls for government to overhaul Stamp Duty for FTBs

Mortgage industry figures are urging the government to review stamp duty for first-time buyers...
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L&G launches later life lending campaign

L&G has launched a later life lending campaign featuring short documentary-style films highlighting the...
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West Brom reduces rates by up to 0.18%

West Brom Building Society has reduced rates across its two-year fixed purchase mortgage range,...

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