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LLA secures LIBF accreditation

The learning programme of the Air Later Life Academy (LLA) has now been fully...

2020 house sales down 11.5% on previous year

HMRC has estimated that the total number of UK residential transactions in December 2020...

Dashly unveils Chrome extension for mortgage affordability

Dashly has launched a Google Chrome browser extension designed to "instantly" show people the most...

Gatehouse Bank resumes HMO lending

Gatehouse Bank has relaunched its finance products for HMO (Houses in Multiple Occupation) purchases. The shariah-compliant...

Foundation ramps up recruitment

Foundation Home Loans has revealed a sizeable increase in recruitment across its underwriting, new...

Together expands digital valuation usage

Specialist lender Together has updated its criteria to allow more automatic property valuations . It...

Equity release market ends year on a high

Equity release adviser Key has revealed that over £3.4 billion in property wealth was...

Coventry for Intermediaries reduces like-for-like stress rate

Coventry for Intermediaries has made changes to its remortgage affordability calculator to help clients...

Hodge appoints mortgages MD

Hodge has made changes to its mortgage team. Ryan Davies has been appointed as the...

Mortgage Magic adds equity release module

CRM and mortgage management system, Mortgage Magic, is to add a free equity release...

Octane joins L&G club panel

Octane Capital has been appointed to the panel of the Legal & General Mortgage Club. Club...

ONS: November house price rise of 1.2%

The Office for National Statistics has revealed that house prices in the UK increased...

Roma Finance ups maximum bridging LTVs

Roma Finance has increased its loan to value (LTV) and will now consider applications...

LendInvest to hold virtual conference next week

LendInvest has launched its first virtual conference, the LendInvest 2021 Kick off Event, which will...

COMMENT

Managing cashflow and risk in today’s turbulent market

Over the past decade buy-to-let landlords have become accustomed to operating in a market where it can often feel like change is the only...

Is there such thing as a ‘typical borrower’ anymore?

What is a typical borrower? A few decades ago, it would have been a salaried employee, single source of income and, most likely, a...

Private credit has reached its next stage of maturity

Every lending market experiences moments that prompt uncomfortable questions. A high profile default, allegations of poor governance or a significant loss inevitably lead to...

Your clients aren’t being stolen… they’re being handed over

Let's be honest about something the industry won't say out loud. Lenders going direct aren't the problem. Brokers are. Every year the same conversation happens....

AI is changing banking but trust will define who succeeds

For the past three years, the conversation around artificial intelligence in financial services has been dominated by technology. Every week seems to bring another...

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Stamp duty and community ties stall downsizing

Nearly three in five over-65s have considered downsizing but stamp duty, family ties and...

Fairfax steps down as Catalyst CEO

Catalyst Property Finance founder Chris Fairfax is stepping down as chief executive following the...

Mortgage fraud rises across every category

Mortgage-related fraud increased across every category tracked by Cifas during the first half of...

West One adds 6.5x LTI residential tier

West One has expanded its residential mortgage and Extra second charge ranges with higher...

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