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Barclays to cut residential and BTL rates tomorrow

Barclays is making changes across its residential (including Mortgage Guarantee Scheme (MGS) and Green...

Keystone cuts rates and offers increased cashback

Keystone Property Finance has reduced rates by up to 0.25 percentage points and has...

Bridging market sees significant rise in applications

Members of the Association of Short-Term Lenders (ASTL) saw their combined new bridging applications...

Free conveyancing courses for welsh businesses

A Welsh training academy is offering legal practices and property firms in Wales free...

West One Loans improves second charge proposition

West One Loans has made product and criteria changes to its Apex 1 second...

£79k a year in interest saved for client

Pitch 4 Finance has saved a client £78,900 a year in interest payments after...

Accord Mortgages reviews residential offering

Accord Mortgages is revising its residential mortgage range this week. The intermediary-only lender is changing...

SimplyBiz Mortgages and Key Group launch ‘Simply Later Life’

SimplyBiz Mortgages has introduced a new proposition, created in partnership with Key Group, to...

New bank to promote blood donation

The Blood Bank, a mortgage and property finance collective, has launched to promote the...

Smartr365 unveils SmartrInsight for business performance analysis

Users of Smartr365 can now analyse their business performance from the platform with the newly...

Landlords spend £839m on annual upgrades

Paragon has revealed that landlords spend an estimated £839 million each year upgrading newly...

Promotion for Carruthers at Iress

Iress has promoted Steve Carruthers to the position of head of business development -...

MFS launches ‘deadline driven’ rates

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has unveiled 753 (75-cubed), a new offering designed to fast-track...

Property agents urged to ‘ditch documents’

Anti-money laundering firm SmartSearch has sounded a warning that property agents are in serious...

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

Hope Capital expands Shawbrook funding facility

Hope Capital Property Finance has increased its committed funding facility with Shawbrook Bank to...

Pivotal linked to Beneficial Network deal

LSL Property Services is understood to have agreed a deal involving Beneficial mortgage network...

London leads rental growth as supply shortage keeps rents high

London recorded the strongest monthly increase in average rents as demand continued to outstrip...

TMG reports record monthly MetLife submissions

TMG recorded its highest monthly submission volume with MetLife, exceeding its previous record by...

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