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Royal London removes Covid-19 underwriting restrictions

Royal London has removed restrictions to its underwriting approach put in place in 2020...

CHL Mortgages adds New Leaf to panel

CHL Mortgages has added New Leaf to its select distribution panel for its buy-to-let...

Impact Specialist Finance joins SBG’s new master broker panel

Impact Specialist Finance has been reappointed to the Sesame Bankhall Group approved specialist lending...

Virgin Money cuts residential and buy-to-let rates

Virgin Money has made a series of reductions to its residential and buy-to-let mortgages. The...

FIBA agrees protection referral partnership

Trade body FIBA has partnered with BQI Protection to introduce a referral service for...

HRMC: April residential transactions down 36%

HRMC has revealed that its provisional seasonally adjusted estimate of UK residential transactions...

CSF publishes latest Health and Wellbeing interview

Staff at Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) have held five days of activities for Mental...

The Right Mortgage holds virtual National Training Event

The Right Mortgage and Protection Network team held another virtual National Training Event yesterday...

Criteria Hub reaches 80 lender milestone

MPowered Mortgages has become the latest lender to go live on Criteria Hub. The criteria-based...

Over-55s’ interest-only a no-go area for large minority of brokers

A recent webinar LiveMore Capital held in conjunction with Knowledge Bank looked at what types...

NatWet makes new business rate changes

NatWest is making a number of changes to its product range for new business...

SmartrCriteria sees major rise in searches for satisfied defaults

Legal & General Mortgage Club’s SmartrCriteria tool continued to deliver thousands of searches for...

Stonebridge appoints operations director

Stonebridge had announced that Gavin Earnshaw will join the network on 1 June as...

Accord to offer new build up to 90% LTV

Accord Mortgages is revising its higher loan to value (LTV) mortgage offering to include...

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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