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Advise Wise appoints managing director

Advise Wise, the sourcing platform for later life advisers, has announced the appointment of...

Smart Money People becomes associate member of IMLA

Smart Money People has become the latest firm to join the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders...

Hope Capital revamps refurb offering

Hope Capital has made rate reductions within its residential medium refurbishment offering. Its residential medium...

CHL acquired by ModaMortgages’ parent

Chetwood Financial, the business behind soon-to-launch ModaMortgages, has completed the acquisition of the buy-to-let...

Somo appoints pair of relationship executives

Somo Bridging has appointed Daniella Edwards-Davies and Fran Calow as relationship executives to support...

April Mortgages unveils purchase mortgage range

April Mortgages has launched a new, 'Dutch style', house purchase mortgage range. All intermediary firms...

Hodge becomes headline sponsor of Pride Cymru parade

Hodge is the lead sponsor of this year’s Pride Cymru parade. The Pride Cymru 2024...

Gen H boosts five-year product affordability

Residential mortgage lender Gen H has started to differentiate between its two and three-year...

SDL Surveying partners with Mansfield BS

SDL Surveying has announced a new partnership with Mansfield Building Society. The national residential...

Precise adds new one-year fixed and lifetime tracker residential options

Precise, part of OSB Group, has expanded its residential offering with one-year fixed rate...

Time Finance launches ID&V technology with Nivo

Time Finance has announced the launch of its new ID&V (Identity Verification) technology in...

Landbay expands like-for-like remortgage range

Landbay has bolstered its like-for-like remortgage range with a series of new two-year products,...

Zephyr cuts two and five-year fixed rate pricing

Zephyr Homeloans has announced a 16 basis points (bps) reduction across its two-year fixed...

Female SME owners feel discriminated against by high street lenders

Female business leaders are facing gender inequality in commercial lending, which is hampering the...

COMMENT

A steadier second half of 2026 in sight?

The first half of 2026 has been a reminder that the mortgage market does not operate in isolation. While domestic economic conditions have remained...

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...

Latest news

Leeds launches 98% LTV mortgage aimed at widening access for first-time buyers

Leeds Building Society has introduced a new 98% loan-to-value mortgage designed to help more...

Uinsure secures exclusive Lloyds Bank General Insurance panel deal for advisers

Uinsure has added Lloyds Bank General Insurance to its home insurance panel in an...

Clydesdale cuts selected residential product transfer rates

Clydesdale Bank is reducing a range of residential product transfer fixed mortgage rates from...

Foundation shows how revised Property Plus criteria unlock Scottish buy-to-let purchase

Foundation has highlighted how enhancements to its Property Plus proposition helped a broker secure...

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