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Mercantile Trust launches one and five-year specialist BTL fixes

Mercantile Trust has introduced a one-year fixed rate and five-year fixed with no ERC,...

Skipton BS cuts over 100 mortgage rates

Skipton Building Society will be lowering over 100 mortgage rates across its product range. From...

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries improves BTL & residential deals

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries has launched new buy-to-let and residential products. The lender, part of...

Mutual quintet launch Leicestershire Lenders Live Event

Five Leicestershire-based building societies have joined forces to launch the inaugural Leicestershire Lenders Live...

LendInvest unveils new mortgages business division

LendInvest has created a new business division to serve its residential, buy-to-let and bridging...

Castle Trust Bank ups title insurance limit

Castle Trust Bank has increased the maximum loan size on which it can use...

IFA network reveals top three Protection Masterclass learnings and outcomes

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA), an independent mortgage and financial planning network, has revealed the...

Atom bank reduces mortgage rates by up 25bps

Atom bank has further reduced rates across its mortgage products by up to 0.25%...

Pepper Money launches Consent to Follow with second charges

Pepper Money has launched Consent to Follow on its second charge mortgages, enabling the...

21Finance launches specialist packager service

21Finance has unveiled a packager service dedicated to the broker market concentrating on whole...

ONP Group rebrands to Movera

ONP Group has rebranded to become ‘Movera’. Movera is group of home moving businesses,...

Landbay cuts standard five-year fixed rates

Landbay has announced rate reductions to its standard five-year fixed rate products, with a...

Just Mortgages launches equity release licence workshops

Just Mortgages has launched a new series of workshops to help self-employed brokers secure...

Vida improves criteria and product offering

Vida has announced changes to its products and criteria. It has moved to support borrowers...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let and the next generation of landlords

There has been plenty of discussion recently about the future of buy-to-let, whether landlords can continue to make their investments work, and what the...

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...

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Expat buy-to-let rates rise sharply for lower-LTV borrowers

British expatriate landlords with larger deposits are facing higher mortgage rates than borrowers with...

Commonhold reform faces practical challenges over finance and building management

The introduction of commonhold as an alternative to leasehold will require significant preparation across...

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...

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