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Fleet relaunches 65%/75% LTV 5-year fixes with fee options

Fleet Mortgages has relaunched its range of 65% and 75% LTV five-year fixed-rate products...

Clydesdale Bank announces mortgage rate hikes

Clydesdale Bank is increasing the rates on a number of different mortgage products on...

IMLA welcomes Charman’s AMI appointment

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has welcomed the appointment of Stephanie Charman as...

AMI reveals Sinclair’s successor as chief executive

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has announced that Stephanie Charman has been appointed...

Hinckley & Rugby appoints two new telephone BDMs

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society (HRBS) has appointed Nina Andrew and Lauren Baylis as...

Residential transaction volumes up 10% month-on-month

HMRC's provisional seasonally adjusted estimate of the number of UK residential transactions in October...

Net mortgage approvals highest since August 2022

The Bank of England has published its Money & Credit data for October. Net borrowing...

Six of the best: IMLA makes policy recommendations

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has published its latest report - Vital role...

Zephyr Homeloans cuts 2 & 5 year rates

Zephyr Homeloans is reducing rates on its two-year and five-year mortgage products by 10...

MIMHC interviewee discusses overcoming PTSD

The latest video in the Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC) interview series features...

HTB provides £12.8m refinance

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a £12.8m refinance to move a development finance...

Landlords largely unmoved despite “disappointing” Budget

A survey has found that the majority landlords did not see the recent Budget...

Optimistic outlook for later life market despite lifetime mortgage slump

UK Finance has reported that that there were 5,830 new lifetime mortgages advanced in...

Keystone Property Finance cuts all rates by 10bps

Keystone Property Finance has reduced the rates across its complete product offering by 10...
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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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Landlord sales slow following Renters’ Right Act

The share of homes listed for sale that were previously rented dropped to 9.2%...
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Knowledge Bank teams up with Brilliant Solutions for specialist lending cases

Knowledge Bank has formed a partnership with specialist mortgage packager Brilliant Solutions as demand...
Regulation

FCA urges firms to strengthen product design under Consumer Duty

The Financial Conduct Authority has highlighted examples of improved product governance under the Consumer...
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Validate appoints Louise Shute as managing director

Valuation specialist Validate has appointed Louise Shute as managing director as it continues to...

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