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Aspen adds 16th student to graduate scheme

Daniel Tame has become the 16th university student to join Aspen Bridging’s lauded Graduate...

Gen H reduces SVR and base rate tracker

Gen H has announced wide-ranging rate cuts of between 15bps and 30bps. The rates are...

Broker Conveyancing expands offering with two new products

Broker Conveyancing has announced two new products for adviser users, in partnership with The...

Fleet Mortgages unveils new two-year fixes

Fleet Mortgages has announced the launch of new two-year, fixed rate fixed-fee products for...

ColCap completes acquisition of Molo

ColCap Financial has acquired the remaining 20% of shares in Molo Tech. The digital...

Optalitix partners with Spring Finance

Optalitix, a specialist insurance and finance software provider, has announced that it has been...

Advisers closing GI opportunity gap

Financial advisers have been gradually closing the missed opportunity 'GI gap' for the past...

Reward Finance provides £530k facility for AI development

Law365, a Tunbridge-Wells law firm specialising in commercial and employment law primarily within technology...

Twenty7Tec searches up 800k year-on-year

Twenty7tec has published its mortgage market statistics for July 2024. The details are as follows: In...

MPowered Mortgages cuts rates for second time in one week

MPowered Mortgages has reduced its fixed rate range for the second time in a...

Paragon Bank passes £3bn development finance milestone

Paragon Bank’s development finance division has exceeded the £3 billion lending milestone. The £3 billion...

Unauthorised mortgage broker and associates ordered to pay £4m

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has secured an order of £4 million against an...

Jeff Knight unveils broker knowledge platform

A new platform for mortgage brokers - Broker Boost Initiative - has been launched. The...

Developers want council housebuilding targets set by government

74% of developers believe that the government setting targets for councils would be the...

COMMENT

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

LendInvest recorded its strongest ever year for lending in the 12 months to 31...

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...

Six-times salary lending quadruples as lenders loosen affordability

The number of mortgage lenders willing to offer loans worth six times a borrower's...

Buy-to-let lending remains ahead of last year despite slower start to year

Buy-to-let lending increased in the first quarter of 2026 compared with a year earlier,...

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