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Twenty7Tec searches up 800k year-on-year

Twenty7tec has published its mortgage market statistics for July 2024. The details are as follows: In...

MPowered Mortgages cuts rates for second time in one week

MPowered Mortgages has reduced its fixed rate range for the second time in a...

Paragon Bank passes £3bn development finance milestone

Paragon Bank’s development finance division has exceeded the £3 billion lending milestone. The £3 billion...

Unauthorised mortgage broker and associates ordered to pay £4m

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has secured an order of £4 million against an...

Jeff Knight unveils broker knowledge platform

A new platform for mortgage brokers - Broker Boost Initiative - has been launched. The...

Developers want council housebuilding targets set by government

74% of developers believe that the government setting targets for councils would be the...

The Mansfield cuts specialist mortgage rates

Mansfield Building Society has lowered the rates on its Credit Repair and Versatility mortgage...

Family BS cuts owner-occupier fixed rates

Family Building Society has launched a new range of reduced-price owner-occupier repayment and interest-only...

Unauthorised Peckham mortgage broker charged with fraud

Peterson Okoh of Peckham, London SE15, has appeared in Westminster magistrates court for allegedly...

Majority of property professionals favour pre-sale surveys

Over two-thirds of property professionals are in favour of pre-sale surveys, according to a...

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) recruits new advisers

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA), the independent mortgage, protection & financial planning network, welcomed a...

MFS cuts Bridge Fusion and commercial BTL rates

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has reduced rates across a number of product ranges. The...

Keystone Property Finance reduces its fixed rate range

Keystone Property Finance has lowered its entire fixed rate range by up to 25...

MPowered Mortgages cuts fixed rates

MPowered Mortgages has made wide-ranging cuts to its range of fixed rate mortgages. Five-year fixed...

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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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