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Buy to Let by Foundation cuts all core pricing

Buy to Let by Foundation has announced a full product range reprice including rate...

Atom bank increases LTIs and LTVs

Atom bank has made improvements to its maximum loan to income (LTI) ratio and...

OMS reports record-breaking July

OMS has revealed that July was a record month for both applications and completions...

Julian Harris Network renews Iress contract

Iress has announced that Julian Harris has renewed its contract for Iress sourcing products...

HSBC UK becomes latest lender to join OPDA

HSBC UK has become a member of the Open Property Data Association (OPDA) to...

Sedgwick succeeds Rowntree as Paragon’s mortgages MD

Paragon Bank has announced the appointment of Louisa Sedgwick as managing director of its...

Butterfield Mortgages makes two new hires

Prime property lender, Butterfield Mortgages, has expanded its client relationship team with the addition...

Precise launches mobile app with MagiClick

Precise, part of OSB Group, has launched a mobile app for brokers, following months...

West One joins L&C’s residential and BTL panels

West One Loans has been added to London & Country Mortgages’ (L&C) panel of...

Perenna offers retrofitting discount

Perenna has launched a retrofit discount, a new product feature designed to incentivise homeowners...

Leeds BS announces rate reductions of up to 30bps

Leeds Building Society has announced reductions to selected fixed rate products. Rates have been reduced...

Chain-break prevention drives bridging demand

Bridging Trends contributors have reported £201.8 million in bridging loans in Q2 2024, a...

Cumberland BS becomes NACFB patron

The Cumberland Building Society has become a patron of the National Association of Commercial...

LHV Bank provides £3.6m commercial investment loan

LHV Bank has recently completed a £3.6 million commercial investment loan to help the...
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How brokers can secure better client outcomes in a volatile market

Experience has always counted in the mortgage market. Brokers who worked through the financial crisis, the Covid pandemic, the Liz Truss mini-Budget and cost-of-living...

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...

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Fleet Mortgages broadens buy-to-let criteria for foreign nationals and limited companies

Fleet Mortgages has widened its lending criteria for buy-to-let borrowers, introducing greater flexibility for...
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