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Cotality and Landbay streamline buy-to-let submissions with integration

Landbay has become the first buy-to-let lender to integrate brokers directly into Cotality’s Buy...

Maximising embedded value and delivering a great service

While advisers understand the importance of looking after existing clients, nurturing your back book...

Newcastle for Intermediaries reduces residential stress rate

Newcastle for Intermediaries has improved affordability options by reducing its residential stress rate for...

Fix LoA Action Group reaches 64 members as protection added to growing industry checklist

The industry-led Fix LoA Action Group (FLAG) has reached a major milestone with 64...

Gen H partners with JN Bank UK to expand funding lines

Gen H has secured a forward-flow funding agreement with JN Bank UK, marking its...

Atom bank lowers near prime rates once again

Atom bank has announced a fresh round of rate cuts across its near prime...

Masthaven streamlines bridging range

Masthaven Finance has announced a sweeping overhaul of its unregulated bridging loan proposition, including...

Fleet Mortgages unveils new two-year fixes

Fleet Mortgages has unveiled a fresh selection of two-year fixed-rate products while simultaneously cutting...

YBS Commercial raises LTVs and maximum loan sizes for HMOs

YBS Commercial Mortgages has made a series of significant changes to its buy-to-let products...

Formula 1 strategist to speak at NivoCon 2025

Ruth Buscombe, a former Formula 1 race strategists, is set to bring her data-driven...

Pure Retirement launches new adviser-centric website

Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement has unveiled a newly overhauled website aimed at improving...

Redwood supports complex Wrexham refinance

Redwood Bank has completed a challenging refinance deal for a seasoned property investor, enabling...

Buyer interest remains subdued but stability expected, says RICS

The latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey points to continued softness in the housing...

Growth in mortgage and rent spending slows as buyers brace for higher repayments

Growth in consumer spending on mortgages and rent slowed for the third consecutive month...

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Economic uncertainty weighing on business borrowers

Taken as a whole, Atom bank’s SME Pulse for Q2 shows the current robust health of demand in the commercial market. Around 95% of the...

Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

URGENT! AI Is coming for you. Or maybe not…

I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

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Rising cost of living could stall housing market activity

The rising cost of living remains the most pressing concern for Britons and could...

The Mortgage Works cuts switcher rates for existing landlords

The Mortgage Works has announced reductions of up to 0.25 percentage points on selected...

Homeowners stay put as remortgaging nears parity with home purchases

Britain’s homeowners are increasingly choosing to refinance rather than move, with remortgage activity now...

Co-operative Bank in sub-4% mortgage arena following rate cuts 

The Co-operative Bank for Intermediaries has reduced selected residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates, bringing...