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Vida cuts residential and buy-to-let rates

Vida has announced rate reductions across its product range. All buy-to-let rates have been reduced,...

MPowered Mortgages joins Mortgage Marketing Forum

The Mortgage Marketing Forum has announced that MPowered Mortgages is the latest company to...

Advise Wise reveals API Integration with Aviva

Advise Wise has announced its API integration with later life lender Aviva. Advisers using the...

Redwood Bank makes buy-to-let affordability criteria changes

Redwood Bank has introduced changes to the affordability criteria on its lifetime interest-only mortgages,...

More2life widens Flexi-Choice Plan distribution

More2life has expanded the distribution footprint of its Flexi-Choice equity release plan. This will see...

Foundation Home Loans refreshes ‘specials’ products

Foundation Home Loans has announced a refresh of its buy-to-let and owner-occupier ‘specials’ product...

Roma Finance introduces Flow Desk

Roma Finance has launched Flow Desk in response to demand for short term lending. ...

House prices down 3.8% year-on-year

Nationwide Building Society has reported that annual house price growth was -3.8% in July....

HTB appoints head of portfolio management for specialist mortgages

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has appointed Nicola Ledgard as its head of portfolio management...

Virgin Money to cut exclusive rates

Virgin Money is reducing the rates on selected remortgage and purchase exclusives on Tuesday...

Danske Bank partners with LMS to expand Northern Ireland offering

Danske Bank UK has partnered with conveyancer and panel management specialist, LMS, as it...

Assetz Capital provides £2.75m dev exit facility

Assetz Capital has reported a recent agreement for a development exit loan in Frome,...

CMME unveils scheme for self-employed mortgage advisers

Mortgage advisory firm, CMME, is launching a new scheme exclusively designed for self-employed mortgage...

Aviva adopts finova’s originations platform

Finova has announced that its Apprivo² core banking originations platform has been chosen by...

COMMENT

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...

Leasehold reform has a September window – will Burnham use it?

At the time of writing, the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill still has no published First Reading date.  But is it imminent? Andy Burnham entered...

Latest news

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...

Mortgage myths deter would-be first-time buyers

Misconceptions about mortgage eligibility may be prompting aspiring first-time buyers to abandon their plans...

Dudley Building Society publishes guide to trusts

Dudley Building Society has published a guide explaining how trusts can be used to...

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