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Hodge cuts holiday let rates and improves criteria

Hodge is making improvements to its holiday buy-to-let mortgage criteria. It is also reducing rates...

Funding 365 reintroduces stepped rate bridging

Funding 365 is relaunching its Stepped Rate Bridge product with interest starting at 0.49%...

Paragon offers its lowest rate for 18 months

Paragon Bank is offering new deals on its two-year fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgages, including its...

Fleet mortgages unveils rebrand

Fleet Mortgages has revealed a complete rebrand for the business, which it believes reflects...

Foundation Home Loans partners with NACFB

Foundation Home Loans has become a patron of the National Association of Commercial Finance...

West One Loans hits short-term completions record

West One Loans’ short-term lending divisions achieved record completions of more than £1bn in...

360 Dotnet and HLPartnership renew partnership

360 Dotnet, the platform used by over 6,000 advisers, has announced the renewal of...

Paul Brett launches mortgage consultancy

Paul Brett has launched BTS Consult and Coach, a consultancy designed to help businesses...

Landlords expect reintroduction of minimum EPC level

The latest Q4 2023 BVA BDRC Landlord Panel research report has continued to show...

UTB launches product transfer process for first and second charges

United Trust Bank (UTB) Mortgages for Intermediaries has launched product transfer options for its...

LendInvest adds buy-to-let business into new mortgages portal

LendInvest Mortgages has launched a redesigned and updated Mortgages Portal which now includes LendInvest’s...

MortgageQuote promises online mortgage quoting tool and broker portal

Mortgage Quote Limited has launched MQ, a mortgage quote facility which contains over 9,500...

Advise Wise adds online applications for Legal & General products

Advise Wise has announced the introduction of online applications submission for Legal & General...

Castle Trust Bank unveils new Bridge the Gap deal

Castle Trust Bank has introduced a new ‘Bridge the Gap’ product to offer a...

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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