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Advise Wise joins Folding@home initiative

Advise Wise has announced its partnership with Folding@home, a distributed computing project aimed at...

Atom bank reduces mortgage rates

Atom bank has once again reduced rates across its mortgage products by up to...

HTB appoints City of London BDM

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Serena Grewal as business development...

Hope Capital simplifies product proposition

Short-term lender, Hope Capital, has streamlined its proposition to make it easier for brokers...

Phoebus publishes ESG report

Phoebus has published its second ESG report, outlining what it does to maintain and...

Louisa Sedgwick bolsters role at Paragon following restructure

Paragon Bank has announced a restructure of its buy-to-let mortgages sales function to improve...

Somo becomes NACFB patron

Somo Bridging has become a patron lender of the National Association of Commercial Finance...

MorganAsh makes senior appointments

MorganAsh, the provider of support services to the financial services sector, has added to...

UTB makes two bridging servicing appointments

United Trust Bank (UTB) has made two new appointments in its bridging servicing team. Adetayo...

Conveyancing Association releases new version of Technical Protocol

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has published the fifth edition of its Conveyancing Technical Protocol. The...

CHL Mortgages unveils new two and five-year rates

CHL Mortgages has reduced fixed rates across all product ranges. Individual and Limited Company five-year...

Newcastle Intermediaries enhances large loan criteria

Newcastle Intermediaries has enhanced its Large Loan criteria and launched a new range of...

Atom bank and Kamma announce climate change partnership

Atom bank has announced a major new partnership with climate tech business Kamma. Atom...

22% fall in number of first-time buyers in Q1

The number of first-time buyers fell 22% between January and August this year, compared...

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

Gen H reduces high-LTV mortgage rates by up to 20bps

Gen H has cut mortgage rates for borrowers with smaller deposits by up to...

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...

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