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Legal & General Mortgage Club offers RIO exclusive

Legal & General Home Finance is to offer an exclusive Retirement Interest Only (RIO)...

Shawbook to become Saracens commercial partner

Shawbrook Bank is entering into a multi-year partnership with rugby club Saracens. Shawbrook offers specialist...

BFS unveils £300m SME pandemic fund

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has announced a £300m Pandemic Recovery Fund to support SMEs...

Large rise in landlord interest in green mortgages

62% of landlords say they are interested in mortgages that reward borrowers with discounted...

Barclays outlines new 95% LTV Mortgage Guarantee Scheme deals

Barclays Mortgages' new 95% LTV Mortgage Guarantee Scheme products will be available for applications from...

Accord opens up 95% LTV mortgage eligibility

Accord Mortgages is widening its 95% loan to value mortgage offering to all purchasers. The...

Hodge invests in Welsh fintech

Hodge has made an investment in platform Yoello. The investment will help the Wales-based fintech...

Go Business Loans unveils fast short-term SME lending facility

Go Business Loans has launched a new business loan facility to help support small...

Fleet Mortgages revamps criteria

Fleet Mortgages has made a number of criteria changes which focus on a number of...

Newcastle Intermediaries cuts 85% LTV rates

Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced rates across its 85% LTV range by up to 0.20...

Air Group unveils new factfind and suitability report

Air Group has launched a new factfind and suitability report for advisers via Air...

Glenhawk appoints head of product

Glenhawk has appointed Christie Cook to the newly created role of head of product. Cook...

Jeremy Duncombe latest Crystal Health and Wellbeing guest

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has published its latest Health and Wellbeing interview. The new interview...

Covid to spur borrowers to seek mortgage advice

Research from Legal & General Mortgage Club has found that 60% of borrowers whose...

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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