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Pepper provides HNW with £500k second charge

Pepper Money completed a £500,000 second charge mortgage for high net worth (HNW) customers...

Leeds BS reveals new chair

Leeds Building Society has announced that Brendan McCafferty will become its next chair from...

Reward makes trio of managerial appointments

Reward Funding has made three key managerial appointments across client relationships and business development...

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) partners with Perenna

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has added mortgage bank Perenna to its lender panel. The partnership...

Atom bank hails record commercial lending quarter

Atom bank has reported its strongest ever quarter for commercial mortgage lending. In the three...

Marsden BS unveils 95% LTV residential deals

Marsden Building Society has launched two new residential mortgage products at 95% loan to...

Nottingham Building Society to include automation in underwriting

Nottingham Building Society has adopted LendingMetrics' auto-assisted underwriting technology. The mutual has taken the decision...

Brokers want commercial lenders to be more open-minded

A new survey has found that commercial finance brokers want lenders to have a...

Fleet Mortgages reintroduces five-year EPC deals

Fleet Mortgages has relaunched its range of five-year, fixed-rate products for landlord borrowers purchasing...

KSEYE launches festive rate cut offer

Bridging lender, KSEYE, has introduced a seasonal special offer with reduced rates across its...

95% of property professionals doubt housing targets will be met

A new poll has found that almost all (95%) property professionals are sceptical that...

Dudley BS provides £998k remo for child’s FTB purchase

Dudley Building Society, in collaboration with mortgage specialist SPF Private Clients, has completed a...

Family money playing bigger role in helping young onto property ladder

Intergenerational wealth transfers – from housing young adults to financial gifts and inheritances, and...

MQube to share AI chatbot with select lender partners

MQube is making its AI chatbot available to a limited number of other lenders. The...

COMMENT

Cashback should put conveyancing into the advice conversation

One of the more interesting findings from our latest quarterly statistics was the position of Nationwide Building Society, which accounted for 25% of all...

Why ownership structure matters in buy-to-let

It's a scenario brokers encounter every day. Two landlord clients approach them about the same type of buy-to-let property, with similar levels of equity...

You own the shares, but are you really just the custodian?

I've built three businesses and I've said the same thing most entrepreneurs have probably said to their mates and family at some point: "Give...

The FCA protection market study shouldn’t ignore redundancy

Considering a third of employers are likely to implement staff redundancies by January 2027, according to Acas, redundancy cover shouldn’t be ignored in wider...

If AI gives us more time to think, we must learn how to think well

The great promise of AI in financial services is usually expressed in terms of what it can remove. Less administration, less duplication, fewer manual...

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AI-driven direct lending could erode mainstream mortgage advisers’ market share

Mortgage lenders could use artificial intelligence to attract more customers directly, putting pressure on...

Stamp duty exemption for downsizers could revive housing transactions

Removing stamp duty for older homeowners and people moving to smaller properties could help...

Interest rate expectations too pessimistic as inflation pressures ease

Financial markets may be overestimating the outlook for UK interest rates, with inflation potentially...

Landlords face changing buy-to-let market as lenders predict continued demand

Specialist lenders expect the buy-to-let sector to remain resilient despite regulatory changes, although attracting...

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