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Buy to Let by Foundation cuts Core and Special rates

Buy to Let by Foundation, the buy-to-let brand of Foundation Home Loans, has announced...

CSS recertifies higher standard ISO27001 accreditation

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) has been recertified to a new higher standard ISO27001 accreditation...

HTB appoints BDM for the North East

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has bolstered its specialist mortgages sales team with the appointment...

Atom bank completes £1m commercial property deal

Atom bank has completed a £1.06 million commercial mortgage in Scotland, with the broker...

ADP sees data integration upgrade

LendingMetrics has claimed that lenders can quickly integrate third-party data following the latest update...

Legal & General Home Finance improves PTLM accessibility

Legal & General Home Finance has revised its Payment Term Lifetime Mortgage (PTLM) proposition...

Landlords concerned over possible Labour government

A survey of landlords has found that just over 40% are still undecided on...

LV= appoints protection proposition director

LV= has appointed Gary Beyer as its new protection proposition director. Beyer will join LV=...

Dudley BS launches large loan mortgages to whole of market

Dudley Building Society has opened up access to its residential large loan mortgage range...

FTBs show widespread lack of shared ownership understanding

Only 35% of prospective first-time buyers can accurately define shared ownership, suggesting that many...

The Mortgage Works & Mortgage Brain to hold BTL masterclass

Mortgage Brain has partnered with The Mortgage Works to host a free Buy-to-Let Masterclass. Taking...

Aspen provides £1.1m bridge to free up developer capital

Aspen has completed a £1.1m residential bridging loan for a Nigerian national property developer...

Time Finance expands relationship management team

Time Finance has announced the appointment of Alice Cox as relationship manager in its...

Majority of couples see buying a home as bigger commitment than marriage

64% of adults in unwedded relationships would prioritise getting on the property ladder over...

COMMENT

Advisers should be brave enough to drown out the noise

If you thought the economic and mortgage market commentary had been particularly noisy recently, I suspect you haven't heard anything yet, because with the...

Expat buy-to-let: a smaller world, a bigger picture

There has been no shortage of gloomy commentary about buy-to-let of late, so you might wonder why anyone living overseas would want to invest...

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...

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‘The Godfather’ joins Mortgage’s Got Talent judging panel

John ‘The Godfather’ Malone has been recruited as a judge for Mortgage’s Got Talent,...

Royal London introduces AI menopause support tool for staff

Royal London has launched an AI-powered tool designed to help employees and managers access...

Your First Home delays could stall first-time buyer market

Delays in launching the government's Your First Home scheme could cause first-time buyers to...

Foundation recruits former Metro Bank BDM to cover eastern region

Foundation has appointed Foz Ahmad as regional account manager for the East, bringing 12...

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