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Second charge mortgage new business volumes down 3% by volume and up 4% by value in August 2026, according to figures from the Finance & Leasing Association. There was £183 million of new business agreed in August, with 3,347 new agreements in the month. The…

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Searches for UK residential property from GCC investors hit the highest level since research started in December 2024, Nomo data reveals. It found searches during the second quarter of this year for UK residential property from GCC investors have risen by 48% since the first…

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Pepper Money has reduced residential mortgage rates by up to 117 basis points for customers with recent credit challenges. The largest reductions apply to the Pepper 6 range, with two-year rate lowered by up to 117bps and five-year rates down by as much as 101bps.…

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Almost a quarter of new-build homes for sale came to market in the last month, according to research from UK Property Development (UKPD). The development firm found that 23.5% of all new-build properties currently listed for sale across England have come to market in the…

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Losses by investors on the sale of residential properties jumped by 32% to £1.15bn in the last tax year, according to analysis from Bowmore Wealth Group. This was up from £870m a year earlier, based on HMRC data obtained by the firm. Bowmore says the…

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Your First Home (YFH) could wind up being a postcode lottery, unless the Chancellor announces commonsense criteria for the scheme in this week’s Budget.

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Buy-to-let (BTL) has just turned 30 and, judging by some of the commentary surrounding its anniversary, you could be forgiven for wondering how it ever made it this far.

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Advisers can now recommend critical illness cover as a standalone product or alongside other protection products.

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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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“The pool of people who genuinely work well with these tools is small, familiarity is routinely mistaken for competence,” said Schultheiss.

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