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CSF offers semi-exclusive InterBay commercial mortgages

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has launched a new range of semi-exclusive mortgages for landlords...

Pepper Money unveils second charge ‘Payout Before Consent’

Pepper Money has launched Payout Before Consent on its second charge mortgages, enabling the...

Majority of Guardian’s life insurance policies used beneficiary nomination

Guardian has published information about the take-up of its beneficiary nomination tool, Payout Planner,...

Zephyr cuts 5-year fixed and tracker rates

Zephyr Homeloans has announced 15 basis points (bps) reductions across its five-year fixed and...

Which? reveals rise in missed bill payments by mortgage holders

Which?’s Consumer Insight Tracker has revealed that 8.1% of mortgage holders missed payments for...

Coventry BS seen as one of the country’s best workplaces

Coventry Building Society has been named one of the UK’s Best Workplaces by Great...

Lenders expecting household defaults to spike

20 of the country's largest lenders are expecting an additional £788 million in credit...

Precise revamps buy-to-let range with lower rates and more adverse options

Precise, part of OSB Group, has made a series of changes within its buy-to-let...

Paragon Bank signs up to Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter

Paragon Bank has signed up to the Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter, a not-for-profit...

UTB Mortgages promotes sales trio

United Trust Bank (UTB) Mortgages for Intermediaries has announced new roles for three sales...

Paul Welch partners with talent agency to expand financial education across social media

Paul Welch, mortgage broker and founder of largemortgageloans.com and the MillionPlus Club, has been...

Tuscan unveils new refurb facility

Tuscan Capital has launched a "new-look" refurbishment finance facility. This follows the short-term lender securing...

“Trillions” could find home in back books before July 2024

$2.6 trillion (£2.4tn) in a cash pile of investors’ money could be used to...

Bridging lender achieves HM Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter for sixth year

Hope Capital has restated its commitment to HM Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter for...

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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