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Suffolk Building Society adopts LMS Secure Link

LMS has announced that Suffolk Building Society has launched with LMS Secure Link to...

Paragon Bank launches zero fee five-year BTL fixed rates

Paragon Bank has launched new five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgages with no product fees, rates...

MFS joins TMA’s lender panel

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has been added to TMA’s lender panel. TMA Club’s directly...

SMEs express real dilemma over Net Zero

Following the COP28 conference which ended last week, research from specialist business lending provider,...

360 Dotnet integrates with UnderwriteMe’s Protection Platform

360 Dotnet and UnderwriteMe have announced a new partnership. The integration of UnderwriteMe's Protection Platform...

Buckinghamshire BS introduces new shared ownership offering

Buckinghamshire Building Society has launched a shared ownership mortgage product designed to assist applicants...

Pure Retirement joins Criterion’s Equity Release Governance Group

Pure Retirement has become the latest firm to become a member of Criterion’s Equity...

Vida makes residential and BTL rate cuts

Vida is making rate reductions across its product range. Residential rates have been reduced by...

Investec provides £15.6m development loan

Investec Real Estate has provided Moorfield Group, a UK-focused real estate fund manager, with...

MPC ends year with rate hold

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has chosen to freeze the Bank...

Rosemount reveals 2024 Annual Conference speaker line-up

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has published their annual conference speaker line-up. This year’s event being...

Over four-fifths of brokers say BDMs play a vital role

Smart Money People, the financial services review site, has found that 83.7% of brokers...

Bluestone Mortgages to offer 95% LTV Deposit Unlock deal

Bluestone Mortgages is to expand lending to more first–time buyers through the Deposit Unlock...

Clever Lending completes £1m semi-commercial refinance

Clever Lending has recently helped a business customer who needed to refinance a semi-commercial...

COMMENT

Growth can hide a lot – until it stops

Since getting involved with Rotherham United Women I've realised football and business have quite a lot in common. One thing in particular: growth can hide...

Nobody wants your ‘market update’

You sent the same email on Monday that everyone else sent. Moneyfacts had just put the average five-year fix at 6%, the first time in...

The industry needs to support Shared Ownership

This week, I want to put the spotlight on Shared Ownership. It deserves to be treated as a genuinely viable route onto the ladder,...

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...

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Majority of first-time buyers now face higher mortgage payments than rent

More than half of first-time buyers moving from rented accommodation into homeownership are taking...

Foundation gains workplace accreditation after 93% staff approval

Specialist lender Foundation has secured Great Place To Work certification after 93% of its...

‘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...

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