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CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries joins Crystal panel

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has been appointed to Crystal Specialist Finance’s lender panel. The appointment...

Remortgaging landlords still favouring five-year fixed rates

Latest data from Landbay reveals that buy-to-let landlords are continuing to opt for the...

LendInvest Mortgages unveils new BTL rates from 3.69%

LendInvest Mortgages has launched its lowest buy-to-let mortgage rates of the year. Starting from 3.69%,...

Molo Finance appoints senior BDM

Molo Finance has announced the recruitment of John Smith as its newest senior business...

MPowered Mortgages reduces fixed rates once again

MPowered Mortgages has cut fixed rate mortgages by up to 22 basis points (bps)....

Reward adopts ADP from LendingMetrics

Reward Finance Group has adopted new underwriting technology to speed up decisioning and underpin...

ONS reports July rise in house prices and rents

The Office for National Statistics has reported that average UK private rents increased by...

Buy to Let by Foundation cuts all core pricing

Buy to Let by Foundation has announced a full product range reprice including rate...

Atom bank increases LTIs and LTVs

Atom bank has made improvements to its maximum loan to income (LTI) ratio and...

OMS reports record-breaking July

OMS has revealed that July was a record month for both applications and completions...

Julian Harris Network renews Iress contract

Iress has announced that Julian Harris has renewed its contract for Iress sourcing products...

HSBC UK becomes latest lender to join OPDA

HSBC UK has become a member of the Open Property Data Association (OPDA) to...

Sedgwick succeeds Rowntree as Paragon’s mortgages MD

Paragon Bank has announced the appointment of Louisa Sedgwick as managing director of its...

Butterfield Mortgages makes two new hires

Prime property lender, Butterfield Mortgages, has expanded its client relationship team with the addition...

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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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AI could prove critical as later life lending demand grows, Air warns

Later life lending specialists may struggle to capitalise on growing demand for advice unless...

Home improvement finance surges 112% as households invest in existing properties

Finance for home improvements more than doubled in the third quarter of 2026, according...

Younger equity release borrowers more likely to make interest payments

Borrowers under the age of 70 account for nearly two-thirds of more2life's lifetime mortgage...

Chetwood Bank names new board risk committee chair

Chetwood Bank has appointed Melanie Czarra as a non-executive director and chair of its...

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