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April Mortgages makes positive capital-raising changes

April Mortgages has improved its capital-raising criteria to help prospective first-time buyers. Borrowers will be...

Hilco completes fast £1.5m bridge for care home provider

Hilco Real Estate Finance (HREF) recently provided a rapid £1.5m bridging loan to a...

Brokers offered real opportunity from unencumbered rental properties

Brightstar Financial has published a video which argues that unencumbered rental properties present a...

Foundation Home Loans launches fee-assisted residential ‘specials’

Foundation Home Loans has reduced rates across its ‘buy-to-let by Foundation’ and ‘Residential by...

CHL Mortgages cuts BTL rates by up to 49bps

CHL Mortgagesis cutting rates by up to 49 basis points (bps) across its buy-to-let...

Coventry for intermediaries unveils 3.90% fix and other rate cuts

Coventry for intermediaries has launched a new five-year fixed rate at 3.90% and reduced...

Castle Trust completes £1.3m MUFB refinance in nine hours

Castle Trust Bank has completed on a £1.3m refinance loan on a large MUFB...

Countrywide Surveying Services appoints associate directors

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) has announced the appointment of Matthew Ison and Andrew Peters...

Intermediaries recover their positivity about the future

Intermediary confidence in the outlook for the mortgage industry has now recovered to its...

CapitalRise and Colliers structure £6.3m loan for Mayfair townhouse redevelopment

CapitalRise has announced a £6.3 million loan to facilitate the enfranchisement of a townhouse...

Twenty7tec sees affordability sourcing rise following SOURCE update

Twenty7tec has revealed that it has seen an increase in the usage of its...

MFS joins New Leaf lender panel

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has been added to New Leaf Distribution’s panel of lenders. ...

Foundation Home Loans appoints chief treasury officer

Foundation Home Loans has announced the recruitment of Matt Blake as chief treasury officer...

April Mortgages unveils interest rate cuts

April Mortgages has reduced the interest rates on its range of 5-15 year fixed...

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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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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