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Castle Trust cuts rates by 0.25 points

Castle Trust Bank has reduced rates on all of its term products by 0.25...

Knowledge Bank: people desperate to get on the property ladder

Knowledge Bank has revealed the details of the leading criteria searches made on its...

Record month for Funding 365

Funding 365 has reported that October was its biggest month to date, with loan...

Tuscan Capital unveils HMO offering

Tuscan Capital has introduced a new range of products aimed at investors looking to...

Alternative Bridging brings back overdraft product

Alternative Bridging Corporation has reintroduced its Alternative Overdraft product, offering lower rates and service-driven...

MFS partners with Vanquish Business Services

Bridging lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has teamed up with Vanquish Business Services (Vanquish)...

Dynamo expands bridging panel

Greenfield Mortgages has joined Dynamo for Intermediaries' panel of bridging lenders. The deal means club...

Octane Capital unveils buy-to-let calculator

Octane Capital has launched a new calculator that it believes will cut the application...

Hope Capital unveils “Halloween treat for brokers”

Hope Capital has launched a special version of its Seventies Collection, with two revamped...

Shawbrook bridges urgent auction purchase

Shawbrook Bank has completed a bridging loan for a customer who needed short-term funding...

Four new appointments at Mint Bridging

Mint Bridging has made a number of new appointments to its team. Karen Shepherd has...

New hire at bridging firm

Phoebe Sellars has been appointed as business development and loan manager at Bridge Help. She...

Glenhawk moves into regulated bridging

Glenhawk has launched its first regulated bridging product. Launched in direct response to increasing borrower...

Bridging provider unveils iPhone 12 incentive

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) is to give iPhone 12s to brokers and borrowers from...

COMMENT

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

Latest news

The Monmouthshire gives more than £10k to flood-hit local community

Monmouthshire Building Society has donated more than £10,000 to residents, sports clubs and businesses...

Rent growth slows as house prices edge higher, with Middle East tensions clouding outlook

Private rent inflation eased again in March while UK house prices rose modestly in...

Gen H expands broker sales team with three BDM hires and internal promotion

Gen H has expanded its broker sales team with three new business development managers...

Detached homes dominate new lifetime mortgage lending in early 2026

Owners of detached properties accounted for more than four in 10 new lifetime mortgages...

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