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Legal & General Mortgage Club announces Melton semi-exclusive

Advisers using Legal & General Mortgage Club will be able to access a semi-exclusive...

Newcastle Intermediaries cuts 95% LTV rates

Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced rates across its 95% LTV product range, including a reduction...

Atom bank closes £367m securitisation

Atom bank has executed its fourth residential mortgage-backed securitisation (RMBS), ‘Elvet Mortgages 2021-1’. The £367m...

Precise Mortgages launches 75% LTV bridging range

Precise Mortgages has launched a bridging range, featuring regulated and non-regulated products up to...

Industry faces “uncomfortable facts” about diversity and inclusion

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has published a report on Diversity, Inclusion and...

Stamp Duty deadline spike in September property transaction volumes

HMRC's provisional seasonally adjusted estimate of UK residential transactions in September 2021 is 160,950. This...

OMS completes second charge API integration with West One

One Mortgage System (OMS) has finalised a complete API integration with West One for...

Foundation Home Loans unveils discounted variable BTL rate

Foundation Home Loans has launched a new ‘Limited Edition’ two-year discounted variable product with...

Castle Trust Bank completes £4.5m bridge in two weeks

Castle Trust Bank has completed a "complex" £4.5m bridging loan within 14 working days...

Aviva Financial Advice moves into equity release arena

Aviva Financial Advice (AFA) has added equity release and Inheritance Tax Planning (IHT) to...

LendInvest unveils green property buy-to-let range

LendInvest has announced the launch of a new product range that offers reduced rates...

FLA launches recommendations to boost green lending

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has published its manifesto, Making Green Finance Mainstream,...

12% p.a. rise in moving costs

Adults in the UK are spending £748 each time they move house in addition...

August increase in UK house price growth

The latest house price index from the Land Registry for August 2021 show that...
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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...

Is there such thing as a ‘typical borrower’ anymore?

What is a typical borrower? A few decades ago, it would have been a salaried employee, single source of income and, most likely, a...

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