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Record month for Roma Finance

Roma Finance has reported a record month in May, reporting a 50% increase in...

Bob Scott becomes MD of the Right DA Club

Bob Scott has been appointed as the The Right Mortgage's Directly Authorised club’s new...

Foundation Home Loans adds new 65% LTV Green Reward BTL remortgage

Foundation Home Loans has cut rates across its five-year fixed-rate mortgage range for landlord borrowers,...

Accord is latest lender for Lendex

Accord Mortgages has joined Lendex, Mortgage Brain's multi-lender application and submission gateway. Accord now joins Nationwide...

more2life offers highest market LTVs with new plans

More2life has launched two new products, Maximum Choice Super 1 & 2, which offer...

BuildStore makes senior management appointments 

BuildStore Group has made two appointments to its senior management team. Martin Fryer has been...

Brightstar launches virtual expo for specialist lending

Brightstar Financial has announced the Specialist Lending Virtual Expo, a free one day digital...

Investec products now available to Tenet members

Tenet Network Services' advisers can now access mortgages for their wealthy clients with complex...

Covid: millions of over-50s looking to relocate

Three million people in the country aged over 50 are considering relocating, as a...

New BDM for bridging provider

Whitehall Capital has appointed Jason Fantini as its new business development manager (BDM). Fantini (pictured)...

Legal & General launches affordability sourcing tool

Legal & General is to provide what it hails as a ‘first-of-its-kind’ affordability sourcing...

Allica Bank boosts legal panel

Allica Bank has announced the addition of national commercial law firm, Freeths LLP, to...

Vida improves limited edition buy-to-let proposition

Vida is revising its limited edition buy-to-let product offering. Changes include extending the maximum loan...

Halifax: house prices up 1.3% in May

Halifax has reported that house prices reached another record high in May, with the...

COMMENT

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...

Private credit has reached its next stage of maturity

Every lending market experiences moments that prompt uncomfortable questions. A high profile default, allegations of poor governance or a significant loss inevitably lead to...

Your clients aren’t being stolen… they’re being handed over

Let's be honest about something the industry won't say out loud. Lenders going direct aren't the problem. Brokers are. Every year the same conversation happens....

Latest news

Remortgage searches rise 7% in July

Residential remortgage searches increased by 7% during July as purchase and buy-to-let activity weakened,...

LEASE launches lease extension cost tool

The Leasehold Advisory Service has launched a free online tool enabling leaseholders to check...

Vida mortgage lending more than doubles to £840m

Vida Group Holdings increased gross mortgage lending to £840m during the first half of...

Affordability blocking housing recovery

Improving confidence is encouraging buyers back into the housing market but affordability remains the...

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