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Wales Pension Partnership and Pluto Finance partner to fund affordable housing in Wales

The Wales Pension Partnership (WPP) has partnered with specialist lender Pluto Finance to provide...

KRFI includes product transfers in BTL rate reductions

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries (KRFI) has cut rates on two and five-year fixed, variable...

LendInvest cuts buy-to-let rates

LendInvest Mortgages has announced a rate reduction of up to 25 basis points (bps)...

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries further reduces short-term let rates

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has reduced rates across its short-term lets range by 30...

VAS becomes IMLA associate member

VAS has become the latest organisation to join the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA). Steven...

StreamBank appoints senior BDM for London & the South East

StreamBank has announced the appointment of Lee Warne as senior business development manager (BDM)...

London Credit ups semi-commercial LTV

London Credit has announced a five percentage point rise in the maximum loan to...

Home Condition Surveys boost buyer confidence

New research from Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) and Pegasus Insight reveals that 88% of...

First-time buyers face higher mortgage costs despite wage growth

First-time buyers are grappling with significantly higher monthly mortgage payments than they were five...

Mortgage maverick author has a ‘wheely’ good time

The air under the arches of Waterloo Station smelled of old rain and fresh...

Stamp duty changes not deterring portfolio landlords

Landlords still have the appetite to buy property despite recent changes to stamp duty...

£50m+ in Start Up Loans provided to NW female entrepreneurs

The British Business Bank’s Start Up Loans programme has provided more than 5,820 loans,...

Virgin Money reduces fixed mortgage rates across key products

Virgin Money has announced a range of mortgage rate reductions, set to take effect...

Paymentshield and Smartr365 partner to streamline adviser GI process

Paymentshield has partnered with mortgage and protection platform Smartr365 to unveil an integrated general...

COMMENT

The FCA protection market study shouldn’t ignore redundancy

Considering a third of employers are likely to implement staff redundancies by January 2027, according to Acas, redundancy cover shouldn’t be ignored in wider...

If AI gives us more time to think, we must learn how to think well

The great promise of AI in financial services is usually expressed in terms of what it can remove. Less administration, less duplication, fewer manual...

The right scrutiny is a precursor of growing lending safely

Credit markets have always had to accommodate change, but there are periods when the assumptions on which they have been built begin to move...

Only one in five of your clients thinks your fee was justified

You know the moment. 40 minutes in. Gone well. They like you, you like them, everyone's getting on. Then you have to say the fee. And...

I’m 49. My dad’s 73. Between us we’ve found the hole in later life lending

I turn 50 in December, and the marketing has already started. Funeral plans, over-50s life cover, “guaranteed acceptance” adverts wedged between the football highlights....

Latest news

Goldman Sachs discloses 3.15% stake in Secure Trust Bank

Goldman Sachs has reported a 3.15% voting interest in Secure Trust Bank following a...

Market Harborough launches rental scheme offering deposit contributions to first-time buyers

Market Harborough Building Society is offering aspiring homeowners the chance to recover 60% of...

Tipton adds discounted rates for expat and limited company landlords

Tipton & Coseley Building Society has expanded its variable rate buy-to-let mortgage range with...

WIS Mortgages sets out five-year adviser growth strategy

WIS Mortgages has announced a five-year growth plan centred on expanding its adviser community...

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