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Shawbrook facilitates successful portfolio refinance

Shawbrook has helped a professional property investor by orchestrating the refinance of their extensive...

Black Book Finance appoints Luke Crocker-Wilton

Luke Crocker-Wilton has joined Black Book Finance, to head up its specialist buy-to-let packaging...

Positive Lending selects primary technology provider

One Mortgage System (OMS) has been adopted by Positive Lending as its primary technology...

Sales team promotions at Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has announced a number of internal promotions within its sales team, including...

Precise Mortgages improves limited edition proposition 

Precise Mortgages has announced lower rates across its five-year fixed rate terms within its limited...

Legal & General Mortgage Club adds MFS to lender panel

Members of Legal & General Mortgage Club now have access to Market Financial Solutions’...

Virgin Money and Clydesdale Bank improve lending policies

Virgin Money and Clydesdale Bank are making changes to policies for property and self-employed...

Record numbers of landlords intend to purchase via limited company structure

Paragon Bank has found that 74% of landlords who intend to purchase buy-to-let property...

Portfolio landlords in no rush to exit market

Market activity is being driven by portfolio landlords, demand for holiday lets, as well...

United Trust Bank unveils new trackers and rate reductions

United Trust Bank (UTB) Mortgages for Intermediaries has announced a series of changes and...

Together announces successful pricing of its second RMBS for 2023

Together Financial Services has announced the pricing of its latest first charge only residential...

Largest year-on-year fall in house prices since 2009

Halifax has reported that property prices in August dropped by -4.6% on an annual...

Molo launches new limited edition fixed rates

Molo Finance has launched its new limited edition buy-to-let mortgage range. Rates start from 5.45%...

Zurich redesigns its critical illness offerings

Zurich has discarded the standard critical illness template, replacing it with a fresh blueprint...

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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Sirius Finance formalises wealth management referral arrangement

Sirius Finance has entered into a referral partnership with JRM Wealth Management, enabling its...

Paragon appoints Fulford to lead specialist buy-to-let lending

Paragon Bank has promoted Matt Fulford to head of specialist lending in its mortgages...

Council tax reform tops homeowners’ Budget priorities

More than a third of homeowners and prospective buyers want the government to review...

My Legal Club adds three firms to conveyancing panel

My Legal Club has appointed three law firms to its conveyancing panel as it...

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