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Professional Indemnity (PI) insurance is becoming an increasingly worrying issue for brokers, according to specialist finance trade body, FIBA. FIBA, part of...

First 4 Bridging (F4B) has extended its services to the North West of England with the appointment of Simon Bancroft as...

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has cut the interest rates on three mortgages particularly attractive to first-time buyers. The fee-free mortgages are...

Money Advice Scotland is piloting open banking technology from Experian which could help it to significantly speed up the early stages...

Pure Retirement has started the new year by making changes to its heritage range criteria, aiming to give consumers more choice...

Utilising just 41.4% of Britain’s empty homes could house the homeless, according to research by estate agent comparison website, GetAgent.co.uk. Shelter estimates...

Eleven new brokers will begin training with Just Mortgages’ broker academy in the New Year. The new members will join the firm’s...

The level of new-build properties being sold has picked up as we approach the end of the year, while sales across...

Paragon’s ‘Commercial Lending’ division provided 100% funding for a customer to acquire a development site with planning permission. The case – which...

Brilliant Solutions has teamed up with Knowledge Bank as its exclusive criteria search provider. Members of Brilliant Solutions – which helps brokers...

The Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA) is asking members to consider the Bank of England’s (BoE’s) warning about lenders cutting...

Almost seven in 10 (67%) commercial mortgage brokers feel confident about the lending environment in 2020 despite the current political climate,...

The Financial Intermediary and Brokers Association (FIBA) has extended its range of lending options for members with the appointment of Pension-Led...

Hinckley & Rugby has bolstered its later life lending offer with a new five-year fix and slashed the interest rates on...

The property finance industry is rapidly changing. Everyone who’s part of it wants to know where we are heading, what’s working...

Some 77% of lenders believe the number of loans they broker will increase, showing a positive outlook for the future of...

Intermediaries can now access a discount for term retirement interest-only (RIO) mortgage from Hinckley & Rugby. The building society is offering its...

Five brokers in Just Mortgages’ self-employed division are set to trade as commercial brokers following a partnership with commercial broker Fiducia. While...

Nearly a quarter of UK homes have no home insurance, according to Assurant Intermediary. The insurance company says advisers play a vital...

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has been appointed to the panel of specialist mortgage desk Master Private Finance. Launched by mortgage and protection...

Dudley Building Society is giving customers the chance to consolidate their mortgage and rental payments from a shared ownership or Help...

Privately-owned specialist mortgage and finance brokerage, City Finance Brokers, has announced the addition of Simon Kelly to its network. The appointment of...

Pure Commercial Finance saved a multimillion-pound development by sourcing £2.5 million of funding in just three days. The client, an experienced property...

Independent equity release advisor Key has announced the expansion of its corporate business development team in response to growing industry demand. More...

Pure Retirement has announced the launch of its new product suite for advisers, named the Heritage range. The product, which is available...

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has launched a Retirement Interest Only (RIO) mortgage exclusively through Legal & General Mortgage Club. Members of...

Over-55s now make up nearly 200,000 owner occupier housing transactions in England each year, according to the latest study from the...

CLS Money has announced another record year for new business, with specialist first charge lending being largely responsible for the company’s...

Buy-to-let mortgage specialist TBMC has launched its new website for intermediaries. Through the website, users can now maximise the potential of the tools...

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has launched four exclusive mortgages for residential Joint Borrower Sole Proprietor (JBSP) applications. All four mortgages are...

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society is now granting lawyers, barristers and accountants access to its specialist range of bespoke mortgages. The professions...

First-time buyers (FTBs) saw their completion rate for mortgage offers through intermediaries reach a three-year high of 89% in Q4 2018. That...

Buy-to-let mortgage lender Landbay has announced a new partnership with The Mortgage Compliance & Insurance Club (MCI Club). The partnership will provide...

Shawbrook has announced the appointment of Rob Lankey as director of commercial investment. Lankey joins the specialist lender after a long career...

HLPartnership (HLP) and Mortgage Support Network (MSN) have announced that 360’s suite of marketing modules – normally paid for extras –...

Yellow Stone Finance has launched a referral service for intermediaries to place commercial property and business funding cases for brokers who...

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has launched a new cashback mortgage with no completion fee. The new residential mortgage is a two-year...

Mortgage and protection networks, HLPartnership (HLP) and Mortgage Support Network (MSN), are inviting non-members to join them at their technology and...

Computershare Loan Services has launched Zephyr Homeloans, a dedicated buy-to-let lender that provides a range of mortgage products for portfolio landlords...

Shawbrook and its newest ‘Strategic Partner’, Clever Lending, helped an experienced investor with a complete property journey, from purchase through to...

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has launched buy-to-let (BTL) mortgages for limited companies that are exclusively available through the specialist mortgage...

A Brexit ‘uncertainty effect’ is washing over UK mortgage brokers after the largest drop in business volumes in more than two...

Almost one third of landlords say they would be less likely to purchase new rental property if compulsory or default three-year...

Assetz Capital has agreed a deal with Connect for Intermediaries to be the first network that it distributes its products through. The...

Intelenet Global Services has launched a new ‘Lending Suite’ to help banks generate mortgage offers in as little as 30 minutes. The...

Shawbrook has announced the additions of Amanda Meadows and Shrena Patel to the commercial mortgages sales team as business development managers...

Shawbrook has announced the departure of Karen Bennett, managing director of commercial property. With nearly two decades of experience in the mortgage...

The Finance Property Show will return for its fifth year and will feature almost 100 lenders and providers. Known as one of...

The Bank of Mum and Dad is very much prevalent, with recent research showing that UK parents will help 316,000 young...

The proportion of sales made to first-time buyers rose by five percentage points to 29% in June, the highest figure recorded...

Across the UK adults are signing away the biggest financial contracts of their lives without fully reading or comprehending them, new...

A specialist buy-to-let mortgage broker has urged buy-to-let landlords to take a cautious approach and seek expert advice when it comes...

Historically second charge mortgages or secured loans as they are also known were seen as a last chance option for a...

Lenders must say what they mean and mean what they say! And that includes not offering a silly low monthly rate...

Landlords have increasingly been switching to five-year fixed rate products over the past two years, new data from Commercial Trust Limited...

Alternative Bridging recently completed a £15 million loan to fund Millingate’s development of Brockhurst Gate Retail Park – its largest loan...

Foundation Home Loans has launched a new 5-year fixed rate deal across its buy-to-let (BTL) range, aimed primarily at portfolio and...

Specialist mortgage lender for intermediaries Vida Homeloans has announced improved criteria following its full market launch just over a year ago. Vida...

Shawbrook Commercial has strengthened its lending team with the recruitment of Anthony Harrison as the lending manager of commercial property. With nearly...

Connect for Intermediaries has launched new tools, features and expert guides in line with its brand-new website. Boasting over 160 different lender...

TMA Club has bolstered its panel of specialist packagers and master brokers, giving advisers access to a range of second charge...

Commercial mortgage brokers are 'overwhelmingly upbeat' about their prospects for 2018, according to Shawbrook Bank. The bank's annual Broker Barometer found that...

Commercial Trust Limited is urging landlords to speak with specialist buy-to-let mortgage broker firms as many are considering remortgaging options once...

Newbury Building Society has introduced a new variable rate product at 2.99%, further improving its Shared Ownership mortgage offering. While the product...

Legal & General Mortgage Club has added two Shawbrook Bank products to its lending panel.   The products cater for second charge and...

The homebuying process and its associated costs is being met with a lack of understanding amongst potential first-time buyers, fresh research...

Specialist lender Foundation Home Loans has announced multiple new appointments to its senior team, with more to follow. Andrew Ferguson is now...

Craig Brown has been appointed as the new director of Legal & General’s Intermediary division, set to lead its distribution in...

After a successful seminar program last year, Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced another buy-to-let (BTL) seminar program in partnership with...

Property lender, LendInvest, has launched the first LendInvest Broker Property Development Course in partnership with the National Association of Commercial Finance...

Specialist lender Pepper Homeloans has announced that it will change its name to Pepper Money and will also be launching a...

The Mortgage Hut is aiming to meet growing customer demand for complex property loans by launching a new bridging and commercial...

The imminent Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) changes grant brokers and advisors more opportunity to provide guidance for buy-to-let landlords who are struggling...

First-time buyers accounted for half of all home purchase valuations in July, according to the latest research from Connells Survey &...

President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris agreement earlier this year doesn’t seem to have put a dent in a basic architectural...

Amicus Property Finance recently announced that it has appointed three new senior underwriters with long-standing banking experience. Alan Dorrington, Mark Heckles and...

Accord Buy to Let has announced details of its lending criteria for portfolio landlords, set to come into effect on 30...

Accord Buy to Let has bolstered its range of fixed rate mortgages for landlords with deposits of 25% or more. The lender,...

The commercial and private client practice, JPC Law, has now joined the ranks as an associate member of the Association of...

As I settle into my new role, my commute from Liverpool St Station to Hamilton House takes me right past Bucklersbury...

Comprehensive changes have been carried out by New Street Mortgages to its buy-to-let proposition. The changes, which go live today (28 March),...

Tenet, a Leeds-based mortgage adviser support group, has announced a new partnership with specialist lender Vida Homeloans, the latest in a...

Specialist mortgage lender Magellan Homeloans has announced that it will distribute its product range via Black Book Finance. Launched last November, Black...

New products aimed at expats and a simplified buy-to-let range have been launched by specialist lender Together. The hatful of changes to...

Specialist lender Together has confirmed the appointments of two new managers to its commercial team as it continues with ambitious growth...

The latest House Price Sentiment Index (HPSI) from Knight Frank and IHS Markit has revealed that households throughout the UK perceive...

A fall in the mean average value of leads from SMEs in the first six weeks of 2017 seems to suggest...

Furness Building Society has made another new appointment, this time announcing Philip McLelland as non-executive director.  McLelland, a commercial finance director with...

The £15 million supplementary levy imposed on mortgage brokers by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) will hit the best-qualified brokers...

InterBay Commercial, part of specialist lending group OneSavings Bank, has strengthened its buy-to-let proposition with simplified pricing and rate drops. By adopting...

A leading buy-to-let broker has partnered with a new lender to improve its selection of offerings. Commercial Trust has added Vida Homeloans...

Following the introduction of new lending rules in April 2016, under the Mortgage Market Review (MMR), many banks and building societies...

Rob Lankey has been appointed Interim CEO of the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB). The Interim CEO will take over...

A few handfuls of Introducer Today readers will have joined us (and 750 others) at our 2016 Industry Awards ceremony on...

Rates on first charge buy-to-let mortgages have been reduced by mortgage lender Together. This takes them below 7%, with LTVs of...

Over a third of brokers working in the property finance sector have said they think builders and developers will find it...

If the weakened pound and unrest around the continent we sometimes claim to be a part of have combined to put...

A new lender, which is aiming to target older borrowers, has received full regulatory approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Mortgages4Life,...

Data published this week by the Resolution Foundation confirms the continuation of the downward trend in home ownership in the UK.  Since 2003...

The NACFB is sometimes perceived as being an Association of commercial mortgage brokers and asset finance brokers, forgetting the other 20%...

Fraudsters attacking the conveyancing sector, successfully stealing large sums of money from homebuyers, are making national headlines at a depressing rate....

Housing market sentiment remains strong with most owners optimistic about the future despite market uncertainties, new research shows. Households in all UK...

Fewer homeowners are remortgaging to increase the size of their loan, with less than a quarter doing so in April. However, the...

Buy-to-let mortgage sales surged by 163% in the year to March as landlords raced to beat the new stamp duty surcharge...

Kensington Mortgages has cut prices across its range of buy-to-let mortgages. It is reducing rates on products carrying a percentage fee by 25 basis...

The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) is counting down the last month before throwing open the doors to its...

Investors remain positive about the prospects for buy-to-let despite the new stamp duty charge and forthcoming crackdown on mortgage tax relief. The latest...

Brightstar has announced that its specialist sourcing system and case management tool EasySource will launch for intermediaries shortly. The system, sponsored by...

The average cost of tracker mortgages is on the increase as the result of falling demand from borrowers, according to Moneyfacts.co.uk. The...

SearchFlow, property intelligence specialists, has partnered with Decision First to offer an unrivalled service to protect conveyancers and homebuyers from the...

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee has held interest rates again with a unanimous 9-0 vote yesterday and experts say there is...

Coventry for intermediaries has launched new range of five-year fixed-rate residential mortgages. The deals are available from 65% to 90% LTV, with...

Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages has “refreshed” its name to Keystone Property Finance to reflect the wider choice of finance it...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has warned against further intervention in the buy-to-let market as the forthcoming tax crackdown looks...

The rapid growth of the buy-to-let market during 2015 has come at the expense of first-time buyers, new research shows. Buy-to-let grew...

Gross bridging lending burst through the £3.5 billion barrier in 2015, against £2.42 billion last year. This means the sector grew almost 44%...

Each time I find something interesting in the data the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) collects as a by-product...

The North/South divide in house price expectations has now widened to record levels, new figures show. Households in all UK regions perceive...

Interest rate cuts following the financial crisis have reduced annual mortgage costs by more than £22 billion, new figures show. The 4.5 percentage...

Coventry Building Society and The Co-operative Bank have both launched competitive new mortgage deals. Coventry has reduced the rate on its residential and...

Buy-to-let investors are being charged more for limited company mortgages even though the lending risk is the same. Bracknell based specialist lender...

Business Secretary Sajid Javid promised 2016 would be a year of dialling back the bureaucracy. The government, he said, is committed...

Life is getting easier for first-time buyers as barriers to homeownership fall and government schemes help more climb on the property...

The Council of mortgage lenders has urged action to make it easier for older and retired people to take out mortgages. The...

Almost half of all customer enquiries to brokers ended in a mortgage completion in the third quarter of 2015. One in three customer...

Landlords seem to be under attack from all sides of the political divide, as Chancellor George Osborne buy-to-let tax crackdown proceeds...

Brokers have enjoyed boom year in the buy-to-let market with intermediary mortgage sales surging more than 30% to nearly £30 billion. That overshadows healthy growth of...

There has been a sharp decline in the number of buy-to-let investors taking out two-year fixed rates. Two-year fixed rates made up...

Record high demand for first-time buyer properties has pushed prices up by nearly 10% in the year. Although property prices generally have...

Wealthy homeowners are twice as likely to use equity release to treat family and friends, new research shows. As property wealth increases...

Buy-to-let landlords face a potential prison sentence if they fail to carry out immigration status checks on potential tenants. This follows the...

Property letting is becoming a "legal minefield" as new legislation tips the balance of power against landlords, lenders have warned. New legislation has come...

The number of home loans being marketed to landlords has reached a new high, research has revealed. The latest Complex Buy to...

How much money does a small business need to borrow? “We’re looking into the idea of taking out a loan,” they...

The British public remains divided over impact of interest rate rise with almost one in three welcoming the prospect. That rises to more...

Jerrold Holdings has launched itself as a new financial services group offering niche mortgages under the brand Together. The specialist lender will...

The number of landlords increasing rents for tenants fell in August, the first drop this year, new figures show. Only one in three...

Home ownership is a distant dream for nine million UK renters who say they will never be able to afford their...

Brokers and industry specialists have leapt to the defence of equity release following a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) report suggesting the...

Coventry for Intermediaries has reduced the rates on its residential mortgage range. The specialist broker lender is now offering highly competitive two...

The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) is holding an interim conference to support the next set of changes that...

Newcastle Building Society Intermediary Services has entered the buy-to-let market with a range of market-leading products for brokers. The society said it will...

As mortgages plunge to record lows borrowers no longer have to pay more for the security of a fixed rate. The difference...

The Treasury has recently proposed that a new type of Isa will be launched that’s dedicated solely to peer-to-peer funding. This is...

The house price sentiment index in positive territory for 28th consecutive month with households in all UK regions saying property prices...

Coventry for Intermediaries has launched a new mortgage to 90% LTV with rates starting from just 2.99%. The deal has been reduced...

Mortgage brokers and property companies have welcomed government proposals to overhaul Britain’s planning laws and increase housebuilding. Chancellor George Osborne announced on...

It wasn’t exactly springtime in Paris, but our day in Brussels at the start of May was nonetheless a welcome trip...

The Forum of Private Business (FPB) has reported that nearly two thirds of businesses are operating with cash reserves of under...

The British Bankers’ Association is working on a project that ensures small businesses won’t be left out in the cold. Banks will...

Bending over backwards to help borrowers A lot of Introducer Today readers will already be aware of the recent FCA ruling on...

Large loans: a user’s guide For those with less experience handling large loans, they can at first be a daunting prospect. This...

The private story behind public relations. When the NACFB’s members look back at how we’ve focused so much on the press, and...

As UK house prices reach new records and the price for an average London property crosses £500k, you might wondering whether...

Recent surveys showed UK rental prices have hit a record high and it shows no slowing down. According to the figures, landlords...

Brokers confidence has steadily recovered in the wake of the Mortgage Market Review (MMR) and is nearing an all-time high. The number of...

The National Association of Commercial Finance s (NACFB) attracted a record 1,700 attendees to last week's Expo. Registrations were up 26% on...

Lazy lenders are charging the over-50s more for their mortgages because of their age, according to new research from Saga Personal...