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Castle Trust completes £1.3m MUFB refinance in nine hours

Castle Trust Bank has completed on a £1.3m refinance loan on a large MUFB...

Countrywide Surveying Services appoints associate directors

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) has announced the appointment of Matthew Ison and Andrew Peters...

Intermediaries recover their positivity about the future

Intermediary confidence in the outlook for the mortgage industry has now recovered to its...

CapitalRise and Colliers structure £6.3m loan for Mayfair townhouse redevelopment

CapitalRise has announced a £6.3 million loan to facilitate the enfranchisement of a townhouse...

Twenty7tec sees affordability sourcing rise following SOURCE update

Twenty7tec has revealed that it has seen an increase in the usage of its...

MFS joins New Leaf lender panel

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has been added to New Leaf Distribution’s panel of lenders. ...

Foundation Home Loans appoints chief treasury officer

Foundation Home Loans has announced the recruitment of Matt Blake as chief treasury officer...

April Mortgages unveils interest rate cuts

April Mortgages has reduced the interest rates on its range of 5-15 year fixed...

The Mortgage Lender reduces its buy-to-let rates

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has announced further rate reductions across its buy-to-let products and...

Confidence up despite higher rent and mortgage costs in July

Rising mortgage costs were offset by falling energy bills in July, while the Bank...

Step One Finance streamlines second charge application process

Step One Finance has announced improvements designed to streamline the second charge application process...

LMS in collaboration to launch major pilot

LMS has partnered with Connells Group, Moverly, Peter Alan, and TM Group to launch...

Marsden BS launches new holiday let range

Marsden Building Society has unveiled three new fee-free furnished holiday let (FHL) mortgages, with...

Rental yields reach 10-year high

Paragon’s latest PRS Trends Report has revealed that rental yields reported by landlords have...
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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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LendInvest posts record £1.44bn lending year

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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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