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NatWest Group joins OPDA campaign

NatWest Group has joined the Open Property Data Association (OPDA) to support its campaign...

Assetz Capital structures £9.9m Leicester hotel deal with Atom bank

Assetz Capital has structured a funding package of £9.95m facility for VOCO Leicester Hotel...

BFS expands team following lending growth

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has reported growth of 25% for the past 12 months. ...

New branding and strategic direction for Reward Funding

Reward Funding has refreshed its brand identity and unveiled a new strategic direction, with...

Inspired Lending provides £1.2m PBSA bridge

Inspired Lending has completed a £1.22 million bridging loan to facilitate the investment in...

MorganAsh adds new customer portal

MorganAsh has launched a new customer portal called It’s Who I Am, designed to...

Loughborough BS increases income assessment for retirement lending

Loughborough Building Society has improved its lending in retirement proposition by moving to assess...

BMD returns to Molo Finance

Molo Finance has announced the appointment of Lee Isherwood as business development manager (BDM)...

UTB cuts bridging rates

United Trust Bank (UTB) has announced a series of interest rate reductions across its...

HLPartnership secures investment from South African mortgage distributor

HLPartnership (HLP) has secured a strategic investment from BetterHome Group (BHG), the largest mortgage...

Zephyr further cuts BTL mortgage rates

Zephyr Homeloans is further reducing its two and five-year fixed rate deals on properties...

Potteries city provides top student accommodation BTL yields

Analysis of buy-to-let mortgage offers in popular student postcodes has revealed Stoke-on-Trent as the...

OMS appoints head of marketing & partnerships

One Mortgage System (OMS) has announced the promotion of Jodie Andrews to head of...

Significant fall in solar panel installations

The rate of solar panels installations on UK is down by 19% since last...

COMMENT

Taking the anxiety out of finance

It’s an anxious time for mortgage borrowers. A recent study by Handelsbanken Wealth found that the proportion of UK adults apprehensive about making mortgage...

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...

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Rental market divides as London supply squeeze drives up rents

Average advertised rents outside London have exceeded £1,400 a month for the first time,...

More homes within reach but 5% mortgage rates hold buyers back

More than half of two and three-bedroom houses are now within reach of households...

Lenders Live: Flexible lending, fees and remortgage surge

Building societies should use technology to improve service while retaining the flexibility that helps...

High-value homes and London flats face tougher selling conditions

Properties valued at £2 million or more are taking more than twice as long...

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