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Somo becomes NACFB patron

Somo Bridging has become a patron lender of the National Association of Commercial Finance...

MorganAsh makes senior appointments

MorganAsh, the provider of support services to the financial services sector, has added to...

UTB makes two bridging servicing appointments

United Trust Bank (UTB) has made two new appointments in its bridging servicing team. Adetayo...

Conveyancing Association releases new version of Technical Protocol

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has published the fifth edition of its Conveyancing Technical Protocol. The...

CHL Mortgages unveils new two and five-year rates

CHL Mortgages has reduced fixed rates across all product ranges. Individual and Limited Company five-year...

Newcastle Intermediaries enhances large loan criteria

Newcastle Intermediaries has enhanced its Large Loan criteria and launched a new range of...

Atom bank and Kamma announce climate change partnership

Atom bank has announced a major new partnership with climate tech business Kamma. Atom...

22% fall in number of first-time buyers in Q1

The number of first-time buyers fell 22% between January and August this year, compared...

19m workers worried about meeting essential bills

Health and protection provider The Exeter has launched its Health & Financial Fears Report...

The Mortgage Lender launches two new BTL deals

The Mortgage Lender has introduced two new buy-to-let products. The lender’s new products include a...

Keystone Property Finance cuts rates by up to 40bps

Keystone Property Finance has reduced its rates by up to 0.40 basis points with...

Shawbrook provides fast £80k bridging refinance

Shawbrook has provided an unregulated bridging loan to support a client seeking to raise...

Iress adds self-build feature to MSO platform

Iress has announced the launch of a self-build feature within its MSO software. The...

West One Loans cuts second charge mortgage rates

West One Loans has reduced rates by up to 77 basis points on its...

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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