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Foundation Home Loans reprices selected core buy-to-let products

Foundation Home Loans has repriced selected products across its core buy-to-let range to incorporate...

FIBA to partner with MBE North

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced that the specialist property finance trade body, FIBA, is...

Skipton BS improves new build lending policy

Skipton Building Society has made changes to its lending policy for new build flats...

Time Finance appoints relationship executive

Time Finance has welcomed George Tierney as relationship executive in its invoice finance team. Tierney...

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...

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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