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CHL Mortgages cuts buy-to-let fixed rates

Buy-to-let lender CHL Mortgages has reduced its fixed rates by up to 39 basis...

Average Stamp Duty bill nearly £10,000

Coventry Building Society has established that homebuyers paid an average Stamp Duty bill of...

Finova Payment and Mortgage Services adds Bath BS to panel

Finova Payment and Mortgage Services has announced the addition of Bath Building Society to...

StrideUp reduces rates and improves criteria

StrideUp has cut its rates on both two and five-year fixed rates by 80bps...

Sellers being more realistic with asking prices, says Rightmove

Rightmove has reported that average new seller asking prices fell by 1.7% (-£6,088) over...

Two-thirds of UK workers using private healthcare

64% of workers reported using at least one form of private healthcare in 2023,...

Paragon unveils five-year fixed rate cuts

Paragon Bank has cut rates on six five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgages, with lower rates...

MT Finance secures new revolving credit facility

Investment manager, Triple Point, and MT Finance have agreed a £30m corporate revolving credit...

HL Partnership and Property Circle announce collaboration

HL Partnership (HLP) is to collaborate with Property Circle that will improve HLP’s technology...

Bluestone reduces rates to support those with ‘complex credit needs’

Bluestone Mortgages has announced rate reductions across its entire fixed rate product range, including...

Foundation Home Loans cuts rates and broadens product options

Foundation Home Loans has made a number of price reductions in both its owner-occupied...

Record proportion of landlords report increase in tenant demand

71% of landlords have reported increasing levels of tenant demand in the third quarter...

The Later Life Lending Network reveals conference and winter ball plans

The Later Life Lending and Equity Release Network, part of The Right Mortgage, has...

Vida unveils five-year buy-to-let fixed rate reductions

Vida has announced rate reductions in its buy-to-let product range. Five-year fixed rates at 75%...

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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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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