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Hodge improves pension drawdown criteria for later life applicants

Hodge is increasing the percentage of pension drawdown it can accept to help more...

MCR Property Group secures £48m refinance

MCR Property Group, a real estate investment and development company, has secured a £48...

Intermediary market confidence remained steady in Q2

The latest Mortgage Market Tracker report from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) reveals...

Fewer than one million outstanding interest-only mortgages, says FCA

The number of interest-only (750,000) and part-interest-only (245,000) mortgages has halved since 2015, according...

Paradigm offers Harpenden BS large loans to members

Paradigm has announced the launch of new, exclusive Large Loan products from Harpenden Building Society...

HTB appoints BDM for specialist mortgages

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Zouhair Mihramane as business development...

Many borrowers taking proactive measures amid rising rate landscape

New research by Butterfield Mortgages indicates that UK mortgage customers are turning to fixed...

Castle Trust Bank cuts term rate and revises bridging offering

Castle Trust Bank has lowered the five-year fixed rate on its TermTen range from...

Advise Wise unveils annuity referral service

Advise Wise has announced the launch of its annuity referral system designed to help...

Landlords split over PRS Ombudsman proposals

Landbay has carried out research to find out what landlords think of the proposal...

James Sharp selects MorganAsh’s MARS platform

Wealth management firm James Sharp has implemented the MorganAsh Resilience System, to assess, measure...

Suros Capital helps solicitor buy into law practice

Suros Capital, the short term luxury asset lender, has agreed a £100,000 loan for...

More SMEs looking for sustainability funding

An increasing number of businesses are looking for funding to invest in improving their...

Cumberland BS refinances Scottish countryside retreat business

Monachyle Mhor, Mhor 84 and Calair Cottage, an award-winning collection of retreats nestled in...

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

Marshall and Cooke join Mortgage’s Got Talent judging panel

Mortgage’s Got Talent has added two more industry names to its judging panel, with...

Jane Benjamin to lead Crystal’s specialist finance network and club

Crystal Specialist Finance has appointed Jane Benjamin as managing director of its Network and...

LendInvest recruits Matt Taylor to lead mortgage sales

LendInvest Mortgages has appointed Matt Taylor as sales director, with responsibility for its intermediary...

Income limits could exclude many London buyers from proposed deposit scheme

More than 22% of first-time buyer mortgage applicants in London and Greater London could...

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