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RAW Capital Partners launches lower BTL rate for foreign nationals & UK expats

RAW Capital Partners has unveiled a new, lower fixed rate product, with over £100...

Livemore’s Matching Engine provides borrowing boost

Intermediaries using LiveMore’s Matching Engine secure a 41% increase in the loan amounts they...

Virgin Money adds new Fix and Switch deals

Virgin Money is launching new mortgage products on 1 May. The new  products are as...

Skipton BS to cut fixed and tracker rates

Skipton Building Society is cutting mortgages rates on Wednesday 1 May. The reductions will affect...

Hinckley & Rugby BS cuts mortgage rates

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has refreshed its product range as it seeks...

Major regional differences in housing market for FTBs

There are stark regional differences in conditions for first-time buyers, according to Coventry for...

Sesame Bankhall Group partners with Perenna Bank

Perenna Bank has joined the lender panels of Sesame Network and PMS Mortgage Club,...

Pure Retirement revamps Emerald range

Pure Retirement has refreshed its Emerald range of lifetime mortgages, designed to offer consumers...

LendInvest Mortgages launches simplified product transfer process

LendInvest Mortgages has launched a new, streamlined product transfer process for its buy-to-let customers...

London Credit speeds up completions by factor of three

Bridging lender, London Credit, has substantially improved its year-on-year completion times. London Credit has...

Rob Collins returns to Sirius Finance

Sirius Finance has announced that one of its founding directors, Rob Collins, has returned...

Just Mortgages trainer writes second children’s charity book

Greg Smith, senior trainer for the employed division at Just Mortgages, has written a...

Trade body opposes FCA’s ‘name and shame’ plans

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has opposed proposals by the FCA that...

HRBS unveils 95% LTV ‘income booster’ mortgage

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has launched income booster mortgage at 95% loan to...

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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