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Four new hires for Hope Capital

Hope Capital has expanded its team with the appointment of four new hires across...

Newcastle expands Deposit Unlock range

Newcastle Building Society has updated its Deposit Unlock offering in response to growing customer...

Limited company strategy mitigates the risks of inflation, say landlords

New industry research by GetGround, the buy-to-let company creation and management platform, shows that...

Newcastle Intermediaries adds new 60% LTV remortgage products

Newcastle Intermediaries has expanded its remortgage range with the addition of two new 60%...

SPF Private Clients celebrates 25th anniversary

SPF Private Clients is celebrating 25 years in business this month. Established in May 1997...

Virgin Money makes widespread mortgage rate increases

Virgin Money has increased a number of its residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates. Across its...

British Friendly publishes Income Protection claims data

British Friendly has revealed its Income Protection paid claims statistics for the past 16...

Bath BS unveils broker calculator powered by SmartrFit

Bath Building Society has launched an affordability calculator for intermediaries. Integrated into the Bath Building...

Large sense of regret for many who moved during Covid

Trussle has found that 27% of those who moved in the height of the...

Zephyr reinstates seven-year fixed mortgages

Zephyr Homeloans has reintroduced a seven-year fixed deal into its mortgage product range. The...

Spring Finance introduces ‘mid-prime’ second charge range

Spring Finance has relaunched its second charge mortgage offering and introduced a new interest...

Three-quarters believe remortgage process not fit for purpose

20% of mortgage borrowers looking to remortgage in the last 24 months have battled...

iPipeline unveils cloud-based hosted authoring services for insurers

iPipeline has announced a range of new hosted authoring services for insurers from its...

Standard Life Home Finance expands flexible lifetime offering

Standard Life Home Finance has added two new loan to value (LTV) products to...

COMMENT

Leasehold reform has a September window – will Burnham use it?

At the time of writing, the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill still has no published First Reading date.  But is it imminent? Andy Burnham entered...

Advisers need an answer for evolving landlords

It’s a tough time to be a landlord. The succession of changes to tax and regulation made in recent years - with the Renters’...

AI doesn’t remove bias. It gives us the chance to manage it

One of the great promises of artificial intelligence has always been objectivity. Machines, unlike people, do not have bad days. They do not favour...

Commonhold reform: Devil in the detail

The government's language on leasehold reform remains forthright. Ministers speak of, “bringing the feudal leasehold system to an end,” of returning power to homeowners...

Managing cashflow and risk in today’s turbulent market

Over the past decade buy-to-let landlords have become accustomed to operating in a market where it can often feel like change is the only...

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Landlords exploit softer market with lowball offers

More than half of buy-to-let investor offers were at least 10% below the original...

Asking prices suffer biggest August fall since 2018

The average asking price of a newly listed home fell by 2% in August,...

Instamo launches automated post-submission mortgage tool

Instamo has launched FastAdmin, a post-submission automation service designed to reduce the administrative work...

HMLR and OS data tie-up targets faster property transactions

HM Land Registry (HMLR) and Ordnance Survey (OS) have agreed a three-year collaboration intended...

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