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MFS to freeze all bridging rates until end of July

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has committed to freezing its bridging rates despite the Bank...

Family BS unveils new fixed rate range

Family Building Society has unveiled a new range of fixed rate mortgage products following...

Legal & General Mortgage Club adds Loughborough BS to panel

Directly Authorised advisers looking to place business with Loughborough Building Society via Legal &...

Smartr365 and HSBC demonstrate Open Banking solutions

Smartr365 has hosted an exclusive event in conjunction with HSBC to explore the changing...

Mansfield BS relaunches limited company BTL

Mansfield Building Society has launched two new buy-to-let products up to 75% LTV, including...

Reward reaches £200m lending milestone

Reward Finance Group has celebrated its 12th year of growth, by surpassing the £200m...

Spring Finance completes £835k re-bridge in under two weeks

Spring Finance and Newable Commercial Finance have completed an £835,000 regulated re-bridge which completed...

Time Finance appoints BDM

Time Finance has announced the appointment of David Hewitt as business development manager (BDM). Hewitt...

Recruitment firm receives funding boost from Optimum Finance

Right Staff, a Cannock-based recruitment business specialising in providing temporary staff to the industrial,...

BoE raises Bank Rate to 5.0%

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to raise the official...

AMI launches mentoring programme with IMLA & DIFF

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) is launching a new cross-industry mentoring programme in...

E.surv academy graduates achieve 100% AssocRICS pass rate

E.surv’s 2022 academy graduates have become AssocRICS qualified with a 100% pass rate. 13 trainees...

MHBS gives 48 hours’ notice of product withdrawals

After its recent commitment to intermediaries to provide as much notice as possible when...

Clydesdale unveils repriced mortgages

Clydesdale Bank has announced the launch of new mortgage products. The details are as follows: Exclusives: ...
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COMMENT

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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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Halifax extends Club Lloyds mortgage discounts to broker customers

Halifax Intermediaries is introducing discounted mortgage products for eligible Club Lloyds customers, giving brokers...
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ModaMortgages adds eight buy-to-let products at 80% LTV

ModaMortgages has introduced eight additional buy-to-let products at 80% loan-to-value (LTV), extending its options...
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House price growth slows for fourth consecutive month

Average UK house prices increased by just 0.9% in the year to August as...
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Accord reduces buy-to-let mortgage rates by up to 69bps

Accord Mortgages is reducing selected buy-to-let fixed rates by up to 69 basis points...

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