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Foundation Home Loans reveals new CEO

Pete Ball has been appointed, subject to regulatory approval, CEO of Foundation Home Loans. He...

Two-thirds of UK landlords still optimistic about BTL returns

Two-thirds of private landlords in the UK are optimistic about how their property investments...

Hodge improves residential rate switch proc fees

Specialist lender, Hodge, has announced a rise in its procuration fees for its broker...

Reward Finance Group expands London team

Reward Finance Group has bolstered its presence in London and the South East by...

HRBS’s Thornley-Yates to step down

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has announced that after 25 years with the Society,...

The Right Mortgage publishes 2024 event calendar

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network and DA Club has announced a range of ongoing...

Signposting vulnerable consumers “is not enough”

Signposting a vulnerable client to a different organisation for help is not enough to...

Cirencester Friendly maintains high levels of customer service

Cirencester Friendly has announced another strong set of results from this year’s Institute of...

Black & White Bridging joins ASTL

Black & White Bridging has become the latest member to join the Association of...

Pepper Money appoints head of inclusion and engagement

Pepper Money has promoted Atlyn Forde to the role of head of inclusion and...

TML launches new residential mortgage products

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has added new products to its residential range with the...

Suffolk Building Society adopts LMS Secure Link

LMS has announced that Suffolk Building Society has launched with LMS Secure Link to...

Paragon Bank launches zero fee five-year BTL fixed rates

Paragon Bank has launched new five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgages with no product fees, rates...

MFS joins TMA’s lender panel

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has been added to TMA’s lender panel. TMA Club’s directly...

COMMENT

Let’s not get bogged down in the macro, let’s focus on the ones and twos

In challenging times such as this, it often feels like the first instinct for many in the mortgage market is to talk it down....

Underwriting: Are we saying “no” to the wrong risks?

Over the last two days I’ve talked about the size of the later life lending market and the knowledge gap that still exists around...

The blind spot: residential advisers and the over-55 customer

Yesterday I talked about the supportive nature of the equity release and later life lending community and the fact that collaboration is one of...

The uncomfortable truth about the later life lending market

The headlines around the latest Equity Release Council figures released this month all suggested growth. But I think we need to have an honest...

Are we actually set up to support first-time buyers?

After a summer spent thinking it over, this time of year is often the point where first time buyers decide whether they're going to...

Latest news

Foundation raises income multiples for higher-earning mortgage borrowers

Foundation Home Loans has increased the amount higher-earning residential borrowers can access under changes...

Wealthy Advisers Club funds £997 wellbeing retreat place to MIMHC

The Wealthy Advisers Club has donated a fully funded place at its inaugural Digital...

Access FS mortgage business rises 46.8% in record July

Access Financial Services recorded its strongest month for mortgage business in July, with activity...

LiveMore launches mortgage podcast for brokers and advisers

LiveMore has launched a podcast series covering developments in the specialist and later-life lending...

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