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LV= extends protection payment break

LV= is extending both its payment break and premium and cover reduction options until...

Smartr365 integrates smart devices into retention tool

Smartr365 has added voice assistant and smart device integrations to its retention tool SmartrRetain. Clients...

Vida unveils 4.34% five-year buy-to-let fix

Vida has introduced an 80% LTV five-year fixed fee special to its buy-to-let range...

Mint returnee appointed as BDM

Mint Property Finance has welcomed Wayne Lee back to the business as business development manager (BDM). He re-joins the...

Burrow launches client portal and retention marketing modules

Burrow is expanding its API-led Digital Mortgage Platform to include two modules developed for...

Developer uses Porsche 911 for short-term loan

Suros Capital, the alternative security short-term lender, has provided a £66,000 loan to a...

Jargon hindering adviser income protection sales

Research from the Exeter has found that two-thirds (67%) of the UK’s working population...

Record protection payouts for Royal London in 2020

Mutual insurer Royal London paid 99.6% of all protection claims last year, totalling a...

Barclays lowers green home mortgage rate

Barclays has made changes to its green home mortgage range. The bank says the change...

Source Insurance to support Learning at Work Week

Source Insurance is to hold a new week-long series of free ‘Lunch and Learn’...

LiveMore Capital partners with L&C Mortgages

LiveMore Capital has expanded its distribution with its launch with L&C Mortgages. LiveMore Capital provides Retirement...

TML unveils semi-exclusive HMO and Lumi buy-to-let products

The Mortgage Lender (TML) is offering a five-year fixed HMO buy-to-let rate and Lumi-branded...

more2life unveils 58% LTV lifetime mortgage

More2life has unveiled what it says it the highest LTV product in the lifetime...

The Property Franchise Group agrees advice deal with LSL

LSL Property Services has agreed a five-year deal to provide digital and face-to-face mortgage and...

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....

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Commonhold reform: Devil in the detail

The government's language on leasehold reform remains forthright. Ministers speak of, “bringing the feudal...

TMG reports record monthly MetLife submissions

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

Leek raises earned income age limit to 75

Leek Building Society has introduced eight lending criteria changes covering income, contractors, later-life borrowing...

Coventry cuts residential and buy-to-let rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced selected residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates for new and...

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