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Tipton and Coseley Building Society has updated its criteria for expat borrowers to consider income from overseas self-employment, where the applicant runs a business outside the UK.

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Tandem Bank has been approved as one of the first lenders in the UK Government’s Warm Homes Loan Scheme. The scheme offers reduced-rate loans to help homeowners fund energy efficiency installations such as solar panels and air source heat pumps. The Warm Homes Loan Scheme…

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One Mortgage System (OMS) has added Keychain to its range of CRM integrations. Keychain enables brokers to manage a range of early-stage client tasks, including digital fact finds, medical questionnaires, secure document collection and e-signing. It uses AI to analyse and verify documents, identify missing…

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Suffolk Building Society has made affordability criteria changes for expats and landlords. The society has introduced top slicing on its UK buy-to-let (BTL) and expat BTL mortgages. It has also changed the way it assesses affordability for expat residential applicants living in seven tax-free countries.…

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The government has confirmed it will raise the income caps for shared ownership homes in the new year to allow more buyers to qualify. Housing minister Matthew Pennycook told Parliament yesterday that the upper limits on annual household income for shared ownership schemes outside the…

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In a statement to Parliament, the housing minister, said the eligibility caps were to be raised for the first time since 2016.

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To mark Black History Month this October, Mortgage Solutions is profiling Black and Black mixed professionals in the sector, focusing on the 2026 theme, ‘Honouring Our Communities’.

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Leeds Building Society has entered a partnership with Finova to allow brokers to submit mortgage applications using its Agentic Apply technology for free, for a three-month introductory period.

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LMS has gone live with qualified electronic signatures (QES) in the next stage of its rollout.

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Sellers are securing buyers as quickly as they were last year, but higher mortgage rates have made them more discerning, insight suggests.

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