Press releases for November 2024

20 November 2024

Alex Upton, Managing Director, Specialist Mortgages & Bridging at Hampshire Trust Bank: “Rents have risen substantially over the past year, and the latest Office for National Statistics data confirms ...

20 November 2024

Richard Harrison, Head of Mortgages at Atom bank, comments: “A recent spike in activity in the housing market has prompted this latest house price rise. Data from Rightmove shows that the number of s...

20 November 2024

finova Broker, formerly known as eKeeper Group, today launches as a dedicated arm of the finova brand, bringing a fresh, focused approach to supporting the needs of the intermediary sector. The launc...

20 November 2024

Uinsure is supporting over 7,000 of Motability’s Home Insurance policy holders by providing a seamless transition following RSA’s recent withdrawal from the UK home insurance market. Motability Enter...

20 November 2024

Richard Pike, chief sales and marketing officer at Phoebus Software, said: “Although there remains a lot of unknowns in economic terms of fallout from the Budget and further base rate cuts, today’s in...

20 November 2024

Please find a comment below from leading home moving group Movera on today's inflation increase: Warren Martin, Director of Operations at ONP Solicitors part of Movera, commented “Today’s inflation ...

20 November 2024

Martyn Smith, Managing Director at Black & White Bridging, commented: “The rise in inflation to 3.2% up 2.3% from September reflects the ongoing pressures of rising energy costs and housing expenses,...

20 November 2024

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society announce the launch of a Buy-to-Let (BTL) 5-year fixed rate at 4.99%, designed specifically for limited companies allowing top slicing. This product offers a unique ...

20 November 2024

CLSQ has launched VerifyQ – a unique service that enables faster lending decisions by providing instant insured property valuations. VerifyQ has been launched to enable lenders to originate mortgages...

20 November 2024

Aspen has again proven its ability to provide immediate finance for high net worth individuals with a £7,825,000 Residential Purchase bridge on a super-prime property in Kensington, London. The Nige...

20 November 2024

Average Property Value Among New Lifetime Mortgage Customers Has Risen Over £122,000 Since 2018 – Pure Retirement Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement has found that average new lifetime mortgage...

20 November 2024

‘The ‘Buy to Let’ and ‘Residential’ brands of specialist lender, Foundation Home Loans, have today (20th November 2024) announced the launch of new Limited Edition products. ‘Buy to Let by Foundation...

20 November 2024

Please find below, comment on the ONS inflation figures from Simon Webb at LiveMore, the mortgage lender for the 50-90+ age group. Simon Webb, managing director of capital markets and finance at Live...

19 November 2024

Fleet Mortgages, the buy-to-let specialist lender, has today (19th November 2024) cut rates on a number of its five-year fixed-rate products. The lender has cut the rates on those five-year, 75% LTV ...

19 November 2024

United Trust Bank Mortgages has announced that Chris Pedlar has been promoted to Head of Sales, taking over responsibility of the Bank’s Mortgages BDM team. He will also take the lead in delivering th...

19 November 2024

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed three complex deals in partnership with The Property Finance Collective (TPFC) over just three days, with transactions totalling close to £20 million. These de...

19 November 2024

Hanley Economic Building Society has released a strong set of financial results for the year ending 31 August 2024, supported by a robust lending performance. The Society saw mortgage balances increa...

19 November 2024

The Later Life Lending Network, part of The Right Mortgage, has today (19th November 2024) announced details of its Annual Conference, which will be followed by a Great Gatsby-style Gala Dinner and Aw...

19 November 2024

• This is a key move in Atom’s journey to become a climate positive bank by 2035 - a pledge that includes both operational and all financed emissions associated with its lending, making it the first U...

18 November 2024

Atom bank, the UK’s first app-only bank, has reduced the rates on its commercial mortgage range by up to 0.76%. The rate reductions take effect immediately. Atom bank’s variable rates have been cut ...

18 November 2024

InterBay, part of the leading specialist lender OSB Group, has supported a commercial refinance totalling £54.5m in two central London locations. The two office locations, Great Suffolk Yard and The R...

18 November 2024

ASG Finance has announced significant rate reductions across its product range, introducing a new short-term bridging loan with rates from 0.6%. This offering is designed to support property investor...

18 November 2024

‘The ‘Solutions by Foundation’ brand of specialist lender, Foundation Home Loans, has today (18th November 2024) announced the return of David Wheatley to the business. Returning to Foundation as a R...

18 November 2024

Afin Bank Appoints Former Regulator to its Board • David Kenmir joins new digital bank as an Independent Non-Executive Director • He was previously COO of the Financial Services Authority and a Risk a...

18 November 2024

Mansfield Building Society has announced the launch of a new long-term fixed rate product to its Credit Repair range, designed specifically for borrowers who have faced credit challenges. The Credit ...

18 November 2024

The latest Pepper Money Specialist Lending Study has revealed that nearly two-thirds (64%) of potential First Time Buyers are unaware of the higher LTV options available to them. According to the 2...

18 November 2024

• Adviser confidence in the outlook for the mortgage market and the intermediary sector remained stable in Q3, but advisers’ confidence in their own businesses fell slightly, according to the latest f...

15 November 2024

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15 November 2024

Buy-to-let lender Landbay has announced rate reductions across its fixed rate product range, with rates falling by as much as 0.20%. The biggest reduction has been seen across its range of non-portfo...

15 November 2024

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15 November 2024

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has partnered with Digital Buildings Limited to launch a new retrofit proposition, Retrogreen, designed to support homeowners to improve the energy efficiency of thei...

15 November 2024

Atom bank has completed a £640,000 commercial mortgage for a care home provider with exceptional credentials, but who was let down by a number of high street lenders because of their first-time buyer ...

15 November 2024

Mortimer Street Capital (MSC), in their largest deal to date since launching in January this year, has arranged a £27.5m commercial refinance bridging loan facility with Leumi UK. The client, who i...

14 November 2024

Brokers can choose from Free Lender Legals or a Free Valuation to best suit their client’s case Specialist lending firm Somo Bridging has gone even bigger and better in this year’s much-anticipated B...

14 November 2024

Meet our BDM, Liam Billings! We’re excited to announce that we have a new BDM representing Central Trust, Liam Billings! After completing his initial training, Liam will be on the road, connecting w...

14 November 2024

United Trust Bank has announced a raft of interest rate reductions across its range of bridging products with rates from a low as 0.65% per month now available on standard regulated bridging loans and...

14 November 2024

ONP Solicitors, part of leading home moving group Movera, has appointed Gemma Etheridge as their new Conveyancing Team Manager. Bringing over 20 years of experience in the conveyancing industry, Gemma...

13 November 2024

Paradigm, a leading provider of mortgage, protection and compliance services, has today (13th November 2024) launched its seventh annual ‘Reverse Advent’ charity drive running throughout November and ...

13 November 2024

Award-winning buy-to-let lender Landbay has appointed Anna Macdonald to its board as an independent non-executive director. With over 20 years’ experience in institutional and wealth management, Anna...

13 November 2024

Gateway Surveyors, part of Simplybiz, will be hosting its first ‘Climate Change Conference’, exploring the critical impact of climate change and ESG factors on the built environment and lending polici...

13 November 2024

Black & White Bridging has appointed Susan Ansermoz as its new Lending Manager, to support the company’s expansion. With a seasoned background in banking and underwriting, Susan joins the company at a...

13 November 2024

• Atom bank sets new record quarter for Near Prime lending applications • Quarter includes record month in October • Higher levels of activity follow decisive criteria improvements and a focus on valu...

13 November 2024

Award-winning buy-to-let lender Landbay has appointed Anna Macdonald to its board as an independent non-executive director. With over 20 years’ experience in institutional and wealth management, Anna...

13 November 2024

Mortgage Hub, the state-of-the-art originations platform from Target Group, has been upgraded with a new and unique split screen interface for lenders, helping to deliver powerful new efficiencies and...

12 November 2024

Amy Robinson, one of Spring’s business development managers, was approached by a professional intermediary whose client urgently required a bridging loan to repay an existing loan which was at the end...

12 November 2024

Accord Mortgages has reinforced its commitment to prioritising workplace mental wellbeing by signing the Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC). MIMHC was established to raise awareness arou...

12 November 2024

‘The ‘Buy to Let’ brand of specialist lender, Foundation Home Loans, has today (12th November) relaunched its range of Specials with updated rates. The Specials are available across both F1 - for cli...

12 November 2024

United Trust Bank (UTB) Asset Finance has revealed that it intends to expand its activities in Scotland and increase its support to brokers with the appointment of a business development manager based...

12 November 2024

OMS, the technology-led enquiry-to-completion processing platform for intermediaries, has announced a new partnership with Selina Finance, by launching a 'quick quote' functionality on its platform sp...

11 November 2024

11 November 2024: Active Mortgages, the UK’s go-to mortgage specialist for self-employed individuals, business owners, and investors, has selected Acre, the innovative intermediary platform, as its CR...

11 November 2024

We will be making some changes to our product range on Thursday morning, with a number of rates rising across our residential mortgage range. To secure one of our existing products at its current rat...

11 November 2024

Swansea Building Society has announced the expansion of its England Business Development Management (BDM) team, reflecting the Society’s commitment to deepening relationships with mortgage...

11 November 2024

Effective from Monday, 11th November, Dudley Building Society has implemented the launch of three two-year discount mortgage products for residential customers. The products include a rate reduction ...

11 November 2024

LiveMore has lowered by up to £91,500 the amount of equity required for its standard interest-only mortgages, increasing the loans available to borrowers aged 50 to 90plus. In a move to make life eas...

11 November 2024

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS), a leading provider of property risk management, valuations and home surveys in the UK, has announced the hiring of 27 trainees via its AssocRICS Trainee Programme...

11 November 2024

VAS Panel has designed and launched a standalone Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) Short Form Report Template as it aims to create a consistent approach to valuations in one of the UK’s fastest grow...

11 November 2024

The latest research from Foundation Home Loans for Q3 2024 has revealed that just over two-thirds of landlords (67%) currently own at least one property that does not meet the new requirements for the...

11 November 2024

Tunney will lead development of operations and customer service for specialist lender Newly launched specialist lender Afin Bank has appointed Nicola Tunney as its Chief People and Operating Office...

08 November 2024

Mansfield Building Society has announced updates to its popular Versatility range, launching two new two-year discounted variable rate products with reductions of up to 0.24%. Mansfield’s Versatili...

08 November 2024

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has announced the adoption of OpenBanking Vision (OBV) to streamline the mortgage application process, reducing offer times and enhancing the broker and customer expe...

07 November 2024

Redwood Bank's CEO and co-founder Gary Wilkinson has issued the below statement following today's Base Rate decision: “SMEs looking for funding to grow their businesses, or with existing borrowing o...

07 November 2024

Richard Pike, chief sales and marketing officer at Phoebus Software, said, “These arrears and possessions figures are a very encouraging sign either that people are managing their finances better and ...

07 November 2024

Following the release of the latest mortgage arrears and possessions data from UK Finance, we have a comment from Spicerhaart Corporate Sales. David Miller, divisional director at Spicerhaart Corpor...

07 November 2024

Following the release of the latest mortgage arrears and possessions data from UK Finance, we have a comment from Target Group. Melanie Spencer, sales and growth lead at Target, said: “Following an u...

07 November 2024

Ryan Davies, Strategy Director, Bluestone Mortgages comments on today’s Bank of England interest rate decision: “Following the uncertainty surrounding last week’s Autumn Budget, today’s decision to dr...

07 November 2024

Alan Davison, Chief Commercial Officer of specialist lender, Afin Bank, commented on today’s Bank of England base rate announcement: "Today's cut of 25bps to 4.75% for the Bank of England Base Rate i...

07 November 2024

Richard Pike, chief sales and marketing officer at Phoebus Software, said: “Following the UK Budget and the US election result, overall, the markets are reacting positively. Coupled with lower-than-ex...

07 November 2024

Following the decision by the Bank of England to cut the base rate to 4.75%, we have a comment from national brokerage Just Mortgages. Just Mortgages is one of the largest mortgage brokers in the UK,...

07 November 2024

Karl Wilkinson, CEO of Access Financial Services, said: “Today’s BoE interest rate cut is solid evidence that years of inflationary shocks have now been put to bed. It’s particularly good news for fir...

07 November 2024

Please see below a comment from Warren Martin, Director of Operations at ONP Solicitors, part of Movera on the Bank of England MPC decision to cute the base rate. “Today’s rate cut from the Bank of E...

07 November 2024

Following the announcement from the Bank of England to cut the base rate to 4.75%, we have a comment from MorganAsh. MorganAsh provides the award-winning MorganAsh Resilience System (MARS) which enab...

07 November 2024

Please find below, comment on the BoE base rate announcement from Simon Webb at LiveMore, the mortgage lender for the 50-90+ age group. Simon Webb, managing director of capital markets and finance at...

07 November 2024

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07 November 2024

United Trust Bank (UTB) has revealed its new brand identity, designed to build on its strong foundations and take the business into its next exciting chapter. At the core of UTB’s brand is the belief...

07 November 2024

The latest Pepper Money Specialist Lending Study has revealed that nearly three-quarters (72%) of business owners think self-employment makes it harder to get a mortgage. Amongst this group, the stu...

07 November 2024

Bridging lending has continued its record-breaking growth, with data from the Bridging & Development Lenders Association (BDLA) showing increases in applications, completions and loan book values in Q...

07 November 2024

The Brightstar Group has announced the line-up for the two star-studded panel discussions at The Specialist Lending Expo next week. The first panel, which will focus on the mortgage market and its op...

07 November 2024

The Conveyancing Association (CA) - the leading professional body for the conveyancing industry – has today (7th November 2024) unveiled the sixth iteration of its Conveyancing Technical Protocol. In...

07 November 2024

• Nearly half of 18-34-year-old renters are hopeful they will own a home within the next five years, but only 28 per cent of 35-54s think it will be possible in their lifetime • Spending on utilities ...

06 November 2024

A landlord looking to remortgage his property to repay an existing lender benefitted from manual underwriting from a business bank. Redwood Bank was able to offer the customer a residential investme...

06 November 2024

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has today (6th November 2024) added mortgage lender, Together, to its lender panel. From today, The Right Mortgage’s AR member firms can access the full range ...

06 November 2024

• Rent and mortgage spending grew by 6.4 per cent in October, the highest rate of growth recorded since September 2023, ahead of today’s MPC announcement on the Base Rate • Despite the increase, consu...

05 November 2024

Inspired Lending has arranged an £844,000 loan facility to support the purchase and redevelopment of a vacant high street property in Bristol. The mid-terrace former bank premises, located in a prime...

05 November 2024

Access Financial Services, the mortgage and protection advisers, has created a new role of Head of Later Life and appointed Adrian Brewer to the position. Brewer is a former branch manager at Mortgag...

05 November 2024

OMS has secured a further three-year contract extension with Mortgage Brain’s online product sourcing platform Sourcing Brain. Building on a partnership established in 2022, this extension will all...

05 November 2024

Fleet Mortgages, the buy-to-let specialist lender, has today (5th November 2024) launched a new range of five-year, fixed-rate products available in all of its three core product areas: standard, limi...

05 November 2024

Bluestone Mortgages today announces the launch of its online residential affordability calculator. This has been designed to enable brokers to quickly get an estimate of how much their clients can bor...

05 November 2024

more2life, the later life lender, has today (5th November 2024) announced the launch of its Apex Interest Reward product, a lifetime mortgage designed to reward clients for committing to make partial ...

04 November 2024

Paradigm, a leading provider of mortgage, protection, and compliance services, has today (4th November 2024) announced the addition of mutual, Loughborough Building Society, to its lender panel. This...

04 November 2024

The Brightstar Group has announced The Specialist Lending Expo, which it says will assemble ‘probably the best group of industry speakers ever seen’. The CPD accredited event, which is being held in ...

04 November 2024

London Credit, a leading bridging finance provider, is set to unveil new product rates and its development finance proposition at the upcoming Finance Professional (FP) Show on November 8, 2024, at Ol...

04 November 2024

In the latest iteration of its Home Survey Trends Index for Q3 2024, Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS), one of the leading suppliers of property risk management, valuations and customer surveys in ...

01 November 2024

An Exclusive Invitation to Attend! As you know, Buckinghamshire Building Society is a member of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA). This is an exclusive invitation for you or your ...