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The Mansfield cuts specialist mortgage rates

Mansfield Building Society has lowered the rates on its Credit Repair and Versatility mortgage...

Family BS cuts owner-occupier fixed rates

Family Building Society has launched a new range of reduced-price owner-occupier repayment and interest-only...

Unauthorised Peckham mortgage broker charged with fraud

Peterson Okoh of Peckham, London SE15, has appeared in Westminster magistrates court for allegedly...

Majority of property professionals favour pre-sale surveys

Over two-thirds of property professionals are in favour of pre-sale surveys, according to a...

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) recruits new advisers

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA), the independent mortgage, protection & financial planning network, welcomed a...

MFS cuts Bridge Fusion and commercial BTL rates

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has reduced rates across a number of product ranges. The...

Keystone Property Finance reduces its fixed rate range

Keystone Property Finance has lowered its entire fixed rate range by up to 25...

MPowered Mortgages cuts fixed rates

MPowered Mortgages has made wide-ranging cuts to its range of fixed rate mortgages. Five-year fixed...

HTB funds complex six-flat £2.1m development exit

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a complex £2.1m development exit facility for a...

Landbay unveils new two-year deals amid rate cuts

Landbay has announced further rate reductions across its standard fixed product range, along with...

Legal & General updates intermediary protection platform

Legal & General has made a number of updates to its adviser protection platform,...

Major rise in 10-15yr mortgage searches from over-50s

Legal & General has revealed that broker search data from its Ignite platform shows...

LendInvest Mortgages adds £350 BTL cashback option

LendInvest Mortgages has introduced new incentives for its buy-to-let mortgage range. Customers can now receive...

LiveMore appoints national account manager

LiveMore has promoted Darren Cunliffe to the role of national account manager. His appointment follows...

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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