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Short-term asset lender reveals 3% commission offer

Luxury asset lender, Suros Capital, is offering brokers 3% commission on loans secured against...

Source Insurance adds Insurer Hosted Pricing to panel

Source Insurance has welcomed Insurer Hosted Pricing (IHP) to its home insurance panel. Source has...

Portfolio landlords remain bullish about prospects

Portfolio landlords remain largely undeterred in expanding their property portfolios, despite the high inflationary...

VAS Valuation Group bolsters Knowledge Hub video library

VAS Valuation Group has added six new videos to its Knowledge Hub programme as...

More needs-based borrowing from lifetime mortgage cash releases

Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement has discovered a mixed picture among those who access...

One third of older homeowners see themselves as vulnerable

32% of people aged 50–79 years consider themselves vulnerable, according to a LiveMore survey...

Zephyr Homeloans adds new two-year fixed rate deal to range

Zephyr Homeloans has announced a new two-year fixed-rate mortgage as well as a 100bps...

Legal & General Ignite integrates with Smartr365

Legal & General Mortgage Services has announced that its mortgage research and product sourcing...

Former Spring CEO launches new short-term lender

Gavin Diamond has announced the launch of a new specialist short-term lender, Inspired Lending. The...

MPowered Mortgages launches free legals and free valuations for remortgagers

MPowered Mortgages has launched a range of Remortgage Legal Assistance products which cover standard...

New managing director for Sirius Finance

William Lloyd-Hayward has been appointed as managing director of Sirius Finance. This follows the news...

Kensington unveils improved large loan proposition

Kensington Mortgages has launched its enhanced large loan offering, designed to help provide customers...

Perenna unveils 40-year 95% LTV FTB mortgage

Perenna has opened up its flexible long-term fixed rate product, known as the Perenna...

Landlord confidence increasing along with tenant demand

New research has found that landlord confidence across a number of different metrics has...

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...

Latest news

Family BS reduces fixed mortgage pricing for landlords and homeowners

Family Building Society has cut rates across its two-year fixed mortgage range by up...

Sprive records ninefold rise in shoppers as mortgage cashback spending reaches £185m

Mortgage cashback app Sprive has reported a sharp increase in customer activity, with shoppers...

Mortgage deals last just 15 days as volatility hits record high

Mortgage products are lasting just 15 days on average this year as lenders repeatedly...

BetterHome Group UK appoints former MAB finance director as CFO

BetterHome Group UK has appointed Martin Tullett as chief financial officer, bringing in a...

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