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Clydesdale Bank cuts two and five-year rates

Clydesdale Bank has unveiled a series of mortgage rate reductions. Cuts include new and existing...

90-95% LTV rates cut amidst Coventry for intermediaries reductions

Coventry for intermediaries has lowered the majority of its fixed rates, with residential rates...

Saffron for Intermediaries reduces select Core product rates

Saffron for Intermediaries has announced rate cuts across 12 of its core products, including...

UTB cuts second charge rates

United Trust Bank (UTB) Mortgages for Intermediaries has lowered interest rates across its second...

Bluestone Mortgages appoints BDM for the South East

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the appointment of Steve Bailey as the South East of...

Landmark: more dynamic market poised to return in 2024

Landmark’s newly released Q4 Residential Property Trends report has provided analysis of property data...

Perenna now on Sourcing Brain and Criteria Brain

Mortgage Brain has added Perenna to its Sourcing Brain and Criteria Brain platforms. Perenna specialises...

Virgin Money improves loan-to-income policy

Virgin Money has made a positive change to its loan-to-income (LTI) policy. The lender has...

MFS reveals 49 internal promotions in 2023

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has revealed that 49 team members gained promotions in 2023,...

Shawbrook provides £20m BTL portfolio facility

Shawbrook has helped an experienced professional landlord to refinance a large portfolio of 36...

Twenty7tec adds Perenna to its SOURCE module

Twenty7tec has added Perenna to its SOURCE module, providing advisers with access to a...

Brightstar partners with LIBF to deliver CPSP

The Brightstar Group is adopting a group-wide strategy to support team members achieve the...

SimplyBiz adviser survey reveals overall positive outlook

SimplyBiz has announced the results of its annual member survey, designed to measure adviser...

Air Academy adds new LIBF-accredited affordability module

Air Academy, the later-life lending learning platform, has introduced a new affordability module. The module...

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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