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Marshall and Cooke join Mortgage’s Got Talent judging panel

Mortgage’s Got Talent has added two more industry names to its judging panel, with Mortgage Brain’s Sharon Marshall and Niki Cooke signing up for the charity event. The pair will help decide which of the mortgage industry’s hidden talents deserve top billing when the event...
Appointments

Jane Benjamin to lead Crystal’s specialist finance network and club

Crystal Specialist Finance has appointed Jane Benjamin as managing director of its Network and Club division, with responsibility for developing its specialist finance offering for mortgage advisers. Benjamin (main picture will oversee the development of a proposition covering specialist buy-to-let, bridging and commercial finance, designed...

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House prices

First-time buyer homes outpace wider market as affordability improves

First-time buyers are paying more for their homes than they were a year ago...
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Stamp duty receipts rise to £9.3bn – but signs of a peak emerge

Homebuyers have paid £9.3 billion in stamp duty between January and August, a 20.6%...
Stamp Duty

2.5 million homeowners could move if stamp duty scrapped

Around 2.5 million homeowners could be freed to move house if Conservative Party plans...
Bridging

Roma Finance completes £1.5m four-day auction loan

Roma Finance has completed a £1.5 million bridging loan in four days to fund...
Stamp Duty

INDUSTRY REACTION: Badenoch pledges to scrap stamp duty in bid to revive homeownership

Kemi Badenoch has pledged to abolish stamp duty on home sales, describing it as...
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Santander calls for homebuying reforms as young buyers bear the brunt of broken system

Younger buyers and families are suffering most from England and Wales’s outdated homebuying process,...
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Borrower confidence returns as mortgage applications surge, says Stonebridge

Mortgage applications rose sharply in September as borrowers took advantage of falling rates, according...
Buy-to-let

Wales leads UK for rental yields as returns strengthen in Q3

Wales has extended its lead as the UK’s top-yielding region for landlords, according to...
Development finance

UTB and Iron Bridge mark decade-long partnership delivering more than 550 homes

United Trust Bank (UTB) and Iron Bridge Finance are marking a decade of collaboration...
News

Advisers urged to upskill as later life lending offers lifeline amid sector strain

Recruitment and retention challenges across the mortgage advice sector are adding to the pressure...
Bridging

CapitalRise joins BDLA to strengthen collaboration in specialist lending

CapitalRise has joined the Bridging & Development Lenders Association (BDLA), becoming the latest lender...
SME finance

Atom bank widens access to Growth Guarantee Scheme loans

Atom bank has broadened its lending criteria under the government-backed Growth Guarantee Scheme (GGS),...
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charity

Marshall and Cooke join Mortgage’s Got Talent judging panel

Mortgage’s Got Talent has added two more industry names to its judging panel, with...
Appointments

Jane Benjamin to lead Crystal’s specialist finance network and club

Crystal Specialist Finance has appointed Jane Benjamin as managing director of its Network and...
Appointments

LendInvest recruits Matt Taylor to lead mortgage sales

LendInvest Mortgages has appointed Matt Taylor as sales director, with responsibility for its intermediary...
First-time buyers

Income limits could exclude many London buyers from proposed deposit scheme

More than 22% of first-time buyer mortgage applicants in London and Greater London could...