Specialist

L&G Mortgage Club launches specialist lending academy

L&G’s Mortgage Club has launched a Specialist Academy to help advisers support clients with...

The Darlington trims mortgage rates by up to 20bps

Darlington Building Society has reduced selected rates across its residential, specialist residential, shared ownership,...

Hope Capital secures £35 million HTB funding line

Hope Capital Property Finance has secured a £35 million wholesale funding line from Hampshire...

Foundation raises maximum residential lending age to 80

Foundation Home Loans has increased its maximum residential lending age from 75 to 80...

NHS workers priced out as affordability gap widens

Many NHS workers are being priced out of homeownership with average first-time buyer properties...

Metro Bank strengthens specialist mortgage team

Metro Bank has expanded its specialist mortgage team with a series of appointments and...

Lloyds strengthens housing development team

Lloyds Banking Group has strengthened its housing development team with a new specialist role...

ModaMortgages cuts rates on 2- and 5-year fixed rates

ModaMortgages is cutting rates by 20bps across its limited edition 2-year and 5-year fixed-rate...

British Friendly enters market with new Lifetime Care Plan

British Friendly has entered the long-term care funding market with the launch of its...

TAB appoints Karen Rodrigues as director of sales

TAB has appointed Karen Rodrigues as director of sales as the specialist property finance...

What Tony Blair’s AI manifesto means for specialist finance

In Sir Tony Blair’s first intervention in Labour’s leadership battle, the former prime minister...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself...

TPFG sees landlord compliance opportunity from RRA

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) says the introduction of the Renters’ Rights Act (RRA)...

Ben Nichols succeeds Tim Parkes as CEO of RAW Capital Partners

RAW Capital Partners co-founder Tim Parkes has stepped down as CEO, with Ben Nichols...

COMMENT

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

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Nationwide cuts switcher mortgage rates for existing borrowers

Nationwide is reducing rates across its switcher mortgage range for existing customers by up...

Hinckley & Rugby adds visa mortgage products to offering

Hinckley & Rugby for intermediaries has launched four two-year discount visa mortgage products across...

NatWest strengthens broker support with intermediary team expansion

NatWest has expanded its intermediary leadership team with the creation of two new corporate...

LMS chief executive Nick Chadbourne to step down

LMS has announced that Nick Chadbourne is to step down as chief executive after...

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