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Barclays unveils £100k SME lending facility

Barclays has launched £100,000 unsecured lending for SMEs on its app and online banking...

BestAdvice on holiday!

The team at BestAdvice are taking their annual holiday next week, 19-23 August. The period...

Arbuthnot Commercial ABL provides £8m facility

Arbuthnot Commercial ABL has delivered a flexible £8m receivables finance facility to support the...

Paragon increases switch product procuration fees

Paragon has updated its buy-to-let switch and further advance product range for portfolio and...

First-time buyer numbers close to pre-crash levels

The Yorkshire Building Society has calculated that the number of people buying their first...

SMEs still have ambitious growth plans this summer

UK SMEs plan to increase their borrowing to capitalise on summer spending, according to...

Small fall in first-time buyer mortgages in June

UK Finance has reported that there were 32,760 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

LMS partners with Leek United

Conveyancer and panel management firm LMS has undertaken a new partnership with Leek United. The building...

S&P affirms Pepper UK’s servicing ranking

Standard & Poor has affirmed the ranking of ‘above average’ for Pepper UK as...

Leek United expands intermediary team

Leek United has made a series of appointments to its intermediary mortgage team. George Simpson...

Uinsure added to Mortgage Intelligence GI panel 

Uinsure is joining Mortgage Intelligence’s general insurance panel. Uinsure’s Zero Questions quotation functionality enables advisers...

Signature appoints relationship manager for London and the South

Signature Private Finance has announced the appointment of relationship manager, Andy Neocleous. Neocleous (pictured) will...

Brokers and clients want accelerated application process

78% of intermediaries have clients who are in some way dissatisfied with the manual,...

GWlegal makes remortgage questionnaire digital

GWlegal has announced the digitalisation of its online questionnaire for remortgage clients, as well...

COMMENT

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

Why post-contract variation is becoming the mortgage market’s next battleground

For much of the past decade, mortgage technology investment has focused on origination and with good reason. Faster decisions in principle, automated affordability assessments,...

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Zoopla signs Manchester Super Giants shirt deal

Zoopla has become the first official front-of-shirt partner of Manchester Super Giants for the...

Southwest Knotweed launches identification app

Southwest Knotweed Group has launched an app designed to help mortgage and property professionals...

Broker Conveyancing launches referral hub for advisers

Broker Conveyancing has launched a referral platform intended to make it quicker for mortgage...

House price rise puts mortgage resilience in sharper focus

Homebuyers should consider how they would meet mortgage payments if illness or injury affected...

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