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HTB funds complex six-flat £2.1m development exit

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a complex £2.1m development exit facility for a...

Landbay unveils new two-year deals amid rate cuts

Landbay has announced further rate reductions across its standard fixed product range, along with...

Legal & General updates intermediary protection platform

Legal & General has made a number of updates to its adviser protection platform,...

Major rise in 10-15yr mortgage searches from over-50s

Legal & General has revealed that broker search data from its Ignite platform shows...

LendInvest Mortgages adds £350 BTL cashback option

LendInvest Mortgages has introduced new incentives for its buy-to-let mortgage range. Customers can now receive...

LiveMore appoints national account manager

LiveMore has promoted Darren Cunliffe to the role of national account manager. His appointment follows...

Advise Wise integrates with Canada Life via API

Advise Wise has announced the introduction of its latest API integration with Canada Life. The...

Perenna added to TMA lender panel

TMA has added Perenna Bank to its lender panel. It means that TMA intermediaries can...

Buckinghamshire BS launches five-year fixed rate RIO mortgage

Buckinghamshire Building Society has launched a five-year fixed rate retirement interest-only mortgage product. The five-year...

Brightstar completes NACFB Assurance consultation process

The Brightstar Group has achieved NACFB Assurance status, which confirms its dedication to maintaining...

Lawrence Stephens joins Atom bank’s solicitor panel

Atom bank has appointed Lawrence Stephens to its commercial lending legal panel. Lawrence Stephens is...

Home movers favouring detached houses

The number of people moving home rose by 10% in the first half of...

Zephyr unveils new 80% LTV mortgage range

Zephyr Homeloans has announced a two-year, fixed, 80% mortgage product across its standard, HMO...

LSL appoints chief distribution officer for financial services division

Emma Hollingworth has been appointed by LSL Group as chief distribution officer for its...

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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