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PRS undergoing important structural changes

A survey of over 1,000 landlord clients of the Deposit Protection Service (the DPS)...

Gen H creates ‘AI-powered’ mortgage application document packaging

Gen H has announced the launch of an AI-powered packaging tool, built on Google...

Virgin Money increases its maximum mortgage term

Virgin Money has increased the maximum term for all its residential mortgages to 40...

Skipton to cut residential and BTL rates

Skipton Building Society is reducing mortgage rates across its existing customer range. From 9am...

Pure Retirement improves Heritage and Heritage Freedom ranges

Pure Retirement has announced further LTV reintroductions and criteria improvements across its Heritage range,...

SimplyBiz appoints head of distribution partnerships

SimplyBiz has announced the appointment of Fabian Wiesner to the newly created role of...

Reward makes North East team appointment

Reward Finance Group is bolstering its expansion plans in the North East by appointing...

StrideUp cuts rates by up to 60bps

StrideUp, the Shariah-compliant home finance provider, has reduced rates on its two, five and...

Landbay cuts five-year BTL fixed rates

Landbay has announced further rate reductions across its standard five-year fixed rate product range,...

Ashley Pearson promoted at the Loughborough

Loughborough Building Society has promoted Ashley Pearson from national BDM to the newly created...

Clever Lending’s Matthew Dilks wins UTB award

Clever Lending has announced that Matthew Dilks one of its commercial and bridging specialists,...

Leeds BS improves mortgage rates

Leeds Building Society has made rate reductions on selected products aimed at first-time buyers. Rate...

Time Finance appoints non-executive director

Time Finance has welcomed Tracy Watkinson to its board as a non-executive director. Watkinson (pictured),...

UTB ups maximum bridging loan LTV

United Trust Bank (UTB) has increased its maximum LTV for first charge Standard bridging...

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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Zoopla signs Manchester Super Giants shirt deal

Zoopla has become the first official front-of-shirt partner of Manchester Super Giants for the...

Southwest Knotweed launches identification app

Southwest Knotweed Group has launched an app designed to help mortgage and property professionals...

Broker Conveyancing launches referral hub for advisers

Broker Conveyancing has launched a referral platform intended to make it quicker for mortgage...

House price rise puts mortgage resilience in sharper focus

Homebuyers should consider how they would meet mortgage payments if illness or injury affected...

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