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Foundation Home Loans expands green buy-to-let product range

Foundation Home Loans has expanded its green buy-to-let product range to specialist property types...

Your Mortgage Decisions to certify all new mortgage leads

Your Mortgage Decisions has appointed Contact State to certify all its mortgage leads and...

Enduralife expands product portfolio

Protection distributor Enduralife is now offering buildings and contents insurance to existing customers. Current customers who...

Brokers reveal most problematic mortgage applications

Research by broker forum, cherryplc.co.uk, has found that mortgage applications for self-employed clients and...

Enra Specialist Finance to be acquired

Enra Specialist Finance has agreed a deal with funds advised by Elliott Advisors (UK)...

Landlords expect to remortgage or consolidate over next 12 months

70% of portfolio landlords expect to remortgage or consolidate loans over the next 12...

Reward Finance Group makes two hires in North West

Reward Finance Group has bolstered its Manchester team with the appointment of two new...

Life cover with critical illness getting cheaper across the board

Monthly premiums for life insurance with critical illness cover are down across the board...

Allica Bank hits deposits milestone

Allica Bank, the SME challenger bank, has raised over £1 billion in deposits from...

TMA Club appoints Fluent Money to broker panel

TMA Club has appointed specialist fintech finance brokers, Fluent Money, to its broker panel. The...

New NED joins Twenty7Tec board

Tony Prestedge, former deputy CEO at Santander, has joined the board of Twenty7Tec Group...

Royal London returns to a pre-pandemic underwriting approach

Royal London has removed all Covid-19 restrictions to its underwriting for cases up to...

Tenet Group opens Lichfield hub

Tenet Group has announced the launch of its Lichfield hub as part of the...

Data shows lifetime mortgage customers resume aspirational spending

The easing of pandemic restrictions has prompted an increase in lifetime mortgage customers using...

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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FCA bans CEO over fake €200m bond portfolio

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined and banned two former Blue Horizon Asset...

Pivotal reports 121% growth in second charge lending

Pivotal has reported a 121% year-on-year increase in second charge lending through its Believe...

ModaMortgages trims limited-edition five-year fixed rates

ModaMortgages has reduced rates by up to 10 basis points across its limited-edition five-year...

Providence agrees deal to acquire Hometrack

Providence Equity Partners has agreed to acquire Hometrack, the residential property valuation and risk...

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