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Redwood Bank unveils cashback offer for green landlords

Redwood Bank is offering a new Green Reward cashback offer to portfolio landlords. The bank...

Just Wealth beats last year’s referrals and new business totals

Just Wealth, the financial services arm of national brokerage Just Mortgages, says it has...

AR numbers and business volumes up at The Right Mortgage

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network revealed improved business volumes and appointed representative (AR)...

Time Finance expands relationship management team

Time Finance has announced the appointment of Luke Froude as a relationship manager in...

Chadwick Lawrence joins My Legal Club conveyancing panel

Chadwick Lawrence Solicitors has secured a place on My Legal Club’s UK conveyancing panel...

MHBS cuts fixed rate mortgages

Market Harborough Building Society (MHBS) has reduced fixed rates by up to 0.35 percentage...

Hampshire Trust Bank hires new development finance lending director

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Alan Coleman as lending director...

Paradigm Protect partners with UnderwriteMe

Paradigm Protect has agreed a new partnership with technology provider, UnderwriteMe. Members of Paradigm...

Catalyst appoints new credit team support officer

Catalyst, the short term property finance lender, has announced the appointment of Ellie Hadden...

The Mortgage Hut adopts Property Circle

Independent mortgage brokerage, The Mortgage Hut, has selected Property Circle to provide its automated...

Crystal Specialist Finance joins Ignite panel

Specialist finance distributor, Crystal Specialist Finance, has joined Legal and General’s Ignite panel. Ignite...

Majority of 50-79-year-olds distrust financial services providers

There is an “alarming” lack of trust in financial service providers among those aged...

HBSG issues discussion paper on improving home buying & selling process

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has launches a discussion paper to help...

Better buy-to-let yields coming from smaller towns and cities serving students

Paragon Bank has revealed that the student market is driving increasing returns on buy-to-let...

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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