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First-time buyers leading market activity

Stabilising interest rates are fuelling activity in the mortgage market despite longstanding affordability concerns,...

Allica Bank funds nursery & pre-school in Luton

Allica Bank has provided a £450,000 commercial mortgage to enable Kinder City nursery &...

Reliance Bank offers key worker mortgage cashback incentive

Reliance Bank has launched a new key worker mortgage range to both the intermediary...

LSL announces senior level changes

LSL Group has revealed that Jon Round will be stepping down as group financial...

Gen H adds Openwork Partnership to panel

Gen H has partnered with the Openwork Partnership. The addition of The Openwork Partnership brings...

MPowered Mortgages launches marketing tool driven by AI

MPowered Mortgages has announced the launch of Marketing Assist, which uses artificial intelligence and...

West One Loans relaunches Platinum residential range

West One Loans has reintroduced its Platinum residential range aimed at borrowers with stronger...

Somo appoints new relationship director

Short-term lender Somo Bridging has appointed Andrew Marsland as its new relationship director for...

Air to partner with Stonebridge network

Later-life lending platform, Air, has announced plans to partner with Stonebridge to bolster the...

L&C Mortgages teams up with Brilliant Solutions

L&C Mortgages has announced a specialist mortgage partnership with Brilliant Solutions. The arrangement will see...

‘Hybrid advice’ survey shows significant gaps remain

AdviserSoftware.com has undertaken a market study into the emerging 'hybrid advice' market in 2023...

Leeds BS cuts rates for first-time buyers and landlords

Leeds Building Society has reduced rates on a range of its mortgages products. The cuts...

Coventry for intermediaries expands 90% product offering

Coventry for intermediaries has introduced new two and three-year fixed rate products at 90%...

Broker forum outlines most popular topics for discussion

The sale of Tenetlime, whether brokers are looking at the end of the ‘fee-free’...

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...

Latest news

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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