News

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...

19m workers worried about meeting essential bills

Health and protection provider The Exeter has launched its Health & Financial Fears Report...

The Mortgage Lender launches two new BTL deals

The Mortgage Lender has introduced two new buy-to-let products. The lender’s new products include a...

Keystone Property Finance cuts rates by up to 40bps

Keystone Property Finance has reduced its rates by up to 0.40 basis points with...

Shawbrook provides fast £80k bridging refinance

Shawbrook has provided an unregulated bridging loan to support a client seeking to raise...

Iress adds self-build feature to MSO platform

Iress has announced the launch of a self-build feature within its MSO software. The...

West One Loans cuts second charge mortgage rates

West One Loans has reduced rates by up to 77 basis points on its...

Pure Retirement reintroduces Heritage Freedom range

Pure Retirement has announced the reintroduction of its Heritage Freedom range, offering customers repayment...

Envelop reports longer-term specialist business uplift from rebrand

Envelop has reported a "substantial" uplift in the amount of longer-term specialist business written...

Sarah Dix joins HTB as development finance lending director

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Sarah Dix as lending director within...

Landbay reduces two and five-year fixed rates

Specialist buy-to-let lender Landbay has made further reductions across its range of two and...

Smart Money People opens Lender Benchmark for broker feedback

Smart Money People, the financial services review site, has opened its doors for intermediary...

Nottingham BS increases procuration fee

Nottingham Building Society has announced a series of changes, including increased procuration fees and...

MBT adds credit status into research platform

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has integrated credit status into its affordability-first research platform. This new...
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COMMENT

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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Gatehouse Capital strengthens Scottish broker support with new appointment

Gatehouse Capital has appointed Hanif Hussain as business development manager for Scotland as it...
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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...
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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...
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Commonhold reform faces practical challenges over finance and building management

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

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