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Kuflink secures £35m institutional debt funding facility

Kuflink Group and European Risk Capital have jointly announced that Kuflink has entered into...

Virgin Money unveils new two and five-year fixed rates

Virgin Money is launching new residential and buy-to-let mortgage products. The new deals will be...

OneDome eyeing acquisitions as part of growth strategy

OneDome, the end-to-end property transaction company, has reported triple-digit year-on-year revenue growth despite a...

Lack of supply chain awareness is putting SMEs at risk

3.3 million (60%) small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have experienced supply chain delays in...

Mortgage borrowers’ ability to save hit by inflationary pressures

Data gathered from users of Moneyhub's open finance platform has shown that in the...

UK housing market “has entered a turning point”

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that average UK house prices increased...

The Nottingham allows product selection at DIP stage

Nottingham Building Society has made a major change in its mortgage application process. The...

Legal & General Home Finance improves lifetime mortgage repayment options

Legal & General Home Finance has enhanced its Optional Partial Repayments feature on its...

Paragon funds Horsnall Holdings’ Wharf development

Horsnall Holdings has completed the construction of The Wharf, a 55-unit scheme in Waterside...

MorganAsh adds protection triage service to MARS tool

MorganAsh has added a new triage service to its MARS vulnerability software, to help...

OSB appoints BDM for the South

Specialist lender OSB Group has promoted Joe Baxter to the role of customer-facing business...

LiveMore unveils flexible ‘5+5’ fixed rate mortgage

LiveMore has launched a 10-year mortgage for borrowers aged 50 to 90+, but with...

Mortgage Marketing Forum for Intermediaries launches

The Mortgage Marketing Forum has revealed announced details of a new membership website, designed...

360 Lifecycle reports £10.5bn in lending on platform for Q2

360 Dotnet has revealed that its platform, 360 Lifecycle, achieved various milestones in the...

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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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