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Illegal money lender to be sentenced today

Dharam Prakash Gopee has been found guilty at Southwark Crown Court of acting as...

Knowledge Bank offers second charge criteria search

Criteria search system Knowledge Bank has announced a partnership with Loans Warehouse. Master broker Loans Warehouse...

Record low for second charge repossessions

The number of second charge mortgage repossessions in 2017 was 105, 27% lower than...

Castle Trust unveils ‘AI quotation engine’

Castle Trust has introduced what it claims to be the industry’s first quotation engine...

UTB balance sheet exceeds £1bn

United Trust Bank has reported that its balance sheet has exceeded £1 billion. During...

Complete FS added to TMA Club panel

Complete FS is joining the TMA Club to provide specialist lending services to TMA...

Prestige Finance cuts prime residential rates

Prestige Finance has made rate reductions across its prime product range.  The move from the second...

CheckMyPaydayLoan.com radio ad banned

Claims management company CheckMyPaydayLoan.com has had a radio advert banned by the Advertising Standards...

Masthaven launches second charges with L&G Mortgage Club

Masthaven's second charge mortgage range will now be available through Legal & General Mortgage...

Together makes senior management appointments

Together has announced that John Lowe will be joining its senior management team and...

Maeve Ward to leave Shawbrook Bank

Maeve Ward has become the latest senior figure to leave Shawbrook Bank. She has been...

Together increases funding by £150m

Together has announced a further increase in its funding, with the issuance of £150m...

Anti-money laundering firm moves into financial services

SmartSearch, an anti-money laundering (AML) firm, is expanding through the mortgage and financial services...

Vida moves into second charge market

Vida Homeloans is a piloting a second charge mortgage offering. It has a range of...

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Staggering stamp duty will make it easier for people to move

A proposal to spread stamp duty land tax payments across several years, in an effort to drive growth and boost the housing market, is...

Making Digital Sales Ready properties the norm, not the exception

Digital Sales Ready listings and upfront information have the potential to transform the home buying and selling journey, creating faster, more transparent transactions with...

Supercharging affordability: a broker’s tool for unlocking complex cases

If you could choose a superpower, what would it be? The ability to see the future? To slow down time? To get every case...

Selling isn’t shouting

In many industries, sales still carries the weight of old stereotypes: high pressure, slick scripts and a focus on numbers over nuance. But these...

When service beats software: why hands-on support is the real differentiator in conveyancing

For all the talk about technology reshaping the mortgage and conveyancing world, advisers know that what you often need is some good, old-fashioned support. Not...

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Carter Jonas warns housing reforms ‘far from sufficient’ to tackle crisis

The government must go further than its initial wave of planning reforms if it...

South London dominates list of most popular London boroughs for buyers and renters

South London has emerged as the capital’s most sought-after area for both buyers and...

Household incomes fall nearly 9% in three years as tax and inflation bite

Households are nearly 9% worse off than they were before the pandemic, according to...

Millions of adults trapped at home as 98% priced out of first homes

Almost five million adults in Britain are unable to move out of their parents’...