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Funding 365 reintroduces stepped rate bridging

Funding 365 is relaunching its Stepped Rate Bridge product with interest starting at 0.49%...

Paragon offers its lowest rate for 18 months

Paragon Bank is offering new deals on its two-year fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgages, including its...

Fleet mortgages unveils rebrand

Fleet Mortgages has revealed a complete rebrand for the business, which it believes reflects...

Foundation Home Loans partners with NACFB

Foundation Home Loans has become a patron of the National Association of Commercial Finance...

West One Loans hits short-term completions record

West One Loans’ short-term lending divisions achieved record completions of more than £1bn in...

360 Dotnet and HLPartnership renew partnership

360 Dotnet, the platform used by over 6,000 advisers, has announced the renewal of...

Paul Brett launches mortgage consultancy

Paul Brett has launched BTS Consult and Coach, a consultancy designed to help businesses...

Landlords expect reintroduction of minimum EPC level

The latest Q4 2023 BVA BDRC Landlord Panel research report has continued to show...

UTB launches product transfer process for first and second charges

United Trust Bank (UTB) Mortgages for Intermediaries has launched product transfer options for its...

LendInvest adds buy-to-let business into new mortgages portal

LendInvest Mortgages has launched a redesigned and updated Mortgages Portal which now includes LendInvest’s...

MortgageQuote promises online mortgage quoting tool and broker portal

Mortgage Quote Limited has launched MQ, a mortgage quote facility which contains over 9,500...

Advise Wise adds online applications for Legal & General products

Advise Wise has announced the introduction of online applications submission for Legal & General...

Castle Trust Bank unveils new Bridge the Gap deal

Castle Trust Bank has introduced a new ‘Bridge the Gap’ product to offer a...

Pure Retirement improves Classic lifetime mortgage proposition

Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement has made changes to its Classic range of lifetime...

COMMENT

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

Why post-contract variation is becoming the mortgage market’s next battleground

For much of the past decade, mortgage technology investment has focused on origination and with good reason. Faster decisions in principle, automated affordability assessments,...

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Bridging Soup launches major market research initiative

Bridging Soup has launched a new research initiative to build a clearer picture of...

Just one in seven homes records five years of growth

Fewer than one in seven UK homes increased in value during every year of...

Word On The Street arranges £108m of property finance in record year

Word On The Street arranged more than £108 million of property finance across 239...

Beverley enhances SIPP income assessment

Beverley Building Society has introduced a tiered approach to assessing income from self-invested personal...

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