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West One Loans hires two new BDMs

West One Loans has expanded its business development manager (BDM) team with two new...

TFC Homeloans becomes All Money Matters

TFC Homeloans has announced that it has rebranded to become All Money Matters. The...

Market Financial Solutions joins Brilliant Solutions’ panel

Market Financial Solutions has joined Brilliant Solutions’ panel of lenders. The arrangement will provide...

Peter Curran joins HLP as partnerships director

HLPartnership (HLP) has announced that Peter Curran has joined its board in the newly...

Royal London partners with Advise Wise

Royal London Equity Release's Principal product in now available to all advisers through the...

Toni Smith to lead Sesame network

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has appointed Toni Smith to the newly created role of...

SimplyBiz Mortgages adds Perenna to panel

SimplyBiz Mortgages has announced the addition of market disrupter Perenna Bank to its lender...

Twenty7tec teams up with Next Intelligence

Twenty7tec and mortgage and insurance club, Next Intelligence, have partnered to give Next Intelligence...

Suros Capital added to SPF Private Clients’ panel

SPF Private Client has added short term luxury asset lender, Suros Capital, to its...

HLPartnership secures investment from South African mortgage distributor

HLPartnership (HLP) has secured a strategic investment from BetterHome Group (BHG), the largest mortgage...

MFS joins In Partnership panel

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has been added to In Partnership’s panel of lenders. Founded in 2000,...

BuildStore Mortgage Services partners with L&C Mortgages

BuildStore Mortgage Services has entered a strategic partnership with L&C Mortgages. BuildStore is a...

Norton Broker Services adds Interbridge Mortgages to seconds panel

Norton Broker Services, the specialist finance packager and master broker, has expanded its second...

Paradigm creates four new business development director roles

Paradigm has announced that four staff members have moved into the newly-created role of...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

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Skipton cuts fixed rates and widens home mover range

Skipton Building Society is reducing rates across its fixed mortgage range by an average...

Quantum Mortgages promotes Mihramane and Ajaib

Quantum Mortgages has made two internal promotions across its sales and completions teams as...

Complex incomes hindering aspiring Scottish buyers

More than half of Scottish adults with complex incomes who do not own a...

MAB adds three senior hires across marketing, finance and technology

Mortgage Advice Bureau has strengthened its executive team with three senior appointments spanning marketing,...

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