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Molo Finance cuts buy-to-let rates

Molo Finance has announced reductions to its buy-to-let mortgage rates for UK residents, expats...

UTB offers free valuations to Premier Club members

United Trust Bank (UTB) Mortgages is now offering free valuations on residential mortgages to...

Hodge makes further 50+ and RIO rate reductions

For the second time this month, Hodge is reducing rates across a range of...

Tuscan Capital funds £6.8m high-leverage deal

Tuscan Capital has announced the funding of a £6.8 million deal for five luxury,...

Green Mortgages adopts Sikoia’s AI solution

Sikoia has announced a new partnership with Green Mortgages, a mortgage and protection broker...

Stonebridge makes two operational hires

Stonebridge, the national mortgage and protection network, has announced the appointment of Matt Buckland...

ONP partners with Curve Conveyancing

Conveyancing firm ONP, part of home moving group Movera, is working with Curve Conveyancing...

Clydesdale Bank cuts selection of residential mortgage rates

Clydesdale Bank is reducing the rates on a series of its mortgage products. The reductions...

Royal London aims to be more inclusive towards cancer survivors

Royal London has introduced a new approach to cancer underwriting, broadening the access to...

Foundation brands cut rates and add limited edition HMO product

The buy to let brand of specialist lender, Foundation Home Loans, has announced a...

Pepper Money improves variable income criteria for second charges

Pepper Money has opened up its affordability criteria for second charge mortgage customers and...

New purchase mortgage approvals hold firm

Latest statistics from the Bank of England Money and Credit show that individuals borrowed,...

RAW Capital Partners appoints head of people

RAW Capital Partners has appointed organisational psychologist Kate Gibson as its new head of...

Time Finance launches graduate recruitment programme

Time Finance has announced the launch of a new 12-month Fast Track Graduate Recruitment...

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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Asking prices move further ahead of market values, TwentyCi warns lenders

The gap between sellers' asking prices and independent property valuations has doubled over the...

Home movers back digital property packs as support grows for homebuying reform

Most recent home movers support the use of digital property packs and believe the...

Virgin Money increases fixed mortgage rates across core product range

Virgin Money is increasing fixed mortgage rates across much of its purchase and remortgage...

Olmo adds AI-powered automatic file checking for mortgage brokers

Olmo has launched an AI-powered automatic file checking system designed to help mortgage firms...

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