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Foundation brands launch new Limited Edition products

Foundation Home Loans' buy-to-let and residential brands have introduced new Limited Edition products. Buy to...

Hinckley & Rugby unveils 5-year limited company BTL with top slicing

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has launched a buy-to-let five-year fixed rate at 4.99%. The...

CLSQ introduces “instant” insured property valuations

CLSQ has launched VerifyQ, a service which provides instant insured property valuations to enable...

Aspen provides foreign national with £7.8m residential bridge

Aspen has provided finance for a high net worth individual with a £7,825,000 residential...

Uinsure in home insurance partnership with Motability

Uinsure is supporting over 7,000 of Motability’s Home Insurance policy holders following RSA’s recent...

New identity as eKeeper relaunches as finova Broker

Finova Broker, previously known as eKeeper Group, has relaunched as a dedicated arm of...

Time Finance expands asset finance team

Time Finance has appointed Sophie Aitken as a broker manager in its asset finance...

Fleet Mortgages cuts five-year fixed rate pricing

Fleet Mortgages has reduced rates on a selection of its five-year fixed-rate products. The buy-to-let...

27% have had a month off work because of illness or injury

27% of those recently surveyed for income protection specialist Cirencester Friendly have revealed that...

Arkel expands landlord insurance access

Arkel has added its Landlords Let Property insurance product, Premier Let, to the OpenGI...

Pluto expands development lending to Wales

Pluto Finance is targeting at least £50m of lending in Wales next year. The specialist...

United Trust Bank Mortgages appoints head of sales

United Trust Bank Mortgages has announced the promotion of Chris Pedlar to the position...

Atom bank to cover all emissions with woodland purchase

Atom bank has bought 25 acres of newly planted broadleaf woodland in Northumberland to...

Perenna in new partnership with HLP

Perenna has formed a new partnership with HL Partnership (HLP) to provide the network's...

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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