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Landbay reduces fixed rate pricing

Specialist buy-to-let lender Landbay has restricted pricing across its fixed rate product range with...

Foundation Home Loans unveils 5-year Limited Edition fix

Foundation Home Loans has launched a brand new five-year, Limited Edition fixed-rate product as...

Lendlord launches property investor digital suite

Lendlord, the platform for property investors and landlords, has launched a suite of new...

Advise Wise adds EPC sourcing features

Advise Wise, an intermediary later life sourcing platform, has added new features designed to...

LiveMore cuts mortgage rates following fall in swap rates

24 hours since swap rates reduced, LiveMore has lowered rates across selected mortgage products...

Gen H drops rates by up to 60bps

Gen H has cut rates and launched its expanded homebuying bundle, now designed to...

Andrea Glasgow becomes specialist mortgage sales director at HTB

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Andrea Glasgow as sales director,...

Families now much more likely to be involved in equity release conversations

The Covid-19 pandemic and the cost of living crisis have impacted how open families...

Coventry BS is one of the UK’s best workplaces for women

Coventry Building Society has been named one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women...

Paragon adds limited edition five-year deals to offering

Paragon Bank has added limited-edition five-year fixed rate products to its range of buy-to-let...

Majority of mortgage customers want more lender flexibility

66% of UK mortgage customers believe greater flexibility is needed from lenders in the...

Protection Guru to add UnderwriteMe platform to research system

Protection Guru has announced that it will shortly be adding UnderwriteMe’s Protection Platform as...

Hanley Economic BS provides seven-day FMA commitment

Hanley Economic Building Society has committed to providing its intermediary partners with a minimum...

Premium Credit offering options to spread FCA fee payments

Premium Credit is offering a finance facility as the FCA sends out invoices to...

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The two-year fix isn’t advice. It’s a diary entry

5.98%. That was the average two-year fix on 5 October, according to Moneyfacts, the highest since mid-December 2023. The average five-year fix: 6.00%. On those...

Alternative strategies for buying in high-growth property areas

For first-time buyers a Lifetime ISA can be a useful way to build a house deposit, with a 25% government bonus on eligible savings...

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...

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Alternative strategies for buying in high-growth property areas

For first-time buyers a Lifetime ISA can be a useful way to build a...

Employers struggle to engage staff with financial wellbeing support

Only 12% of employees have used financial wellbeing support provided by their employer, despite...

Defaqto extends Matrix 360 to protection and wealth providers

Defaqto has broadened its Matrix 360 market intelligence platform to cover wealth management and...

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...

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