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Mortgage market surge in January fails to match last year’s boom

The UK mortgage market roared back to life in January, with mortgage searches soaring...

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries cuts rates across short term lets range

Specialist lender CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has reduced rates by up to 1.19% across...

Black & White Bridging expands relationship team with four strategic hires

Black & White Bridging has bolstered its relationship team with four key appointments. The latest...

OneDome expands team and targets 200 brokers by year-end

OneDome, the homebuying services platform, has strengthened its mortgage brokerage team. It has added 10...

Clydesdale Bank reduces rates across multiple product ranges

Clydesdale Bank has implemented a series of mortgage rate reductions, effective today (5 February...

First-time buyers now face £33k in upfront costs

The cost of buying a home continues to rise, with first-time buyers now needing...

TAB completes sale of Travelodge investment

TAB has announced the completion and sale of its investment in the Travelodge hotel...

A patchwork of pockets emerges in London’s prime property market

The prime property market in London has become increasingly fragmented, with significant differences in...

Halifax cutting mortgage rates by up to 0.3% ‘could trigger a chain reaction’

The Halifax is cutting rates by up to 0.3% on selected mortgage products tomorrow. Homemover...

Majority of UK SMEs overlook independent finance options

A new survey by independent lender Time Finance has revealed that nearly 60% of...

Reward Funding provides £3.4m facility for Greenwich acquisition

A London-based property investment company has expanded its property portfolio, after securing a £3.4m...

Molo Finance lowers BTL rates for UK residents

Molo Finance has unveiled rate reductions of 20 basis points on its UK resident...

Keystone Property Finance cuts all rates by 15bps

Keystone Property Finance has made cuts across all of its buy-to-let rates by 15...

HTB funds £7m portfolio purchase

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has provided a £7 million bridging loan to help fund...
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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....

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