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The Skipton expands mortgage offering for Lifetime ISA customers

The Skipton Building Society has widened the range of mortgage products available exclusively to...

Signature Private Finance appoints Midlands BDM

Short-term property finance provider Signature Private Finance has appointed Dan Parry as its new...

Diversity panel to talk at Finance Professional Show

Representatives from the Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter team have been confirmed to take...

Magellan Homeloans moves into Scotland

Magellan Homeloans has launched its range of residential mortgages to all brokers operating in...

Average first-time buyer gross household income is £42k

UK Finance has reported that there were 35,500 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

Aldermore reaches £200m annual invoice finance milestone

Over the past 12 months Aldermore has agreed over £200m of new invoice finance...

Castle Trust appoints new business development exec

Castle Trust has appointed Jack Saunders as a business development executive. He will provide brokers...

Together completes regulated bridge in three days

Specialist lender Together and specialist distributor Clever Lending have completed a regulated bridging loan...

Oblix Capital completes £970k permitted development bridge

Oblix Capita has completed on a permitted development (PD) bridge in Dudley, West Midlands...

Shieldpay receives grant to transform real estate transactions

Secure payments provide Shieldpay has been awarded an Innovate UK grant. The funding will be used...

Octane Capital appoints senior credit manager

Octane Capital has hired Donna-Louise House as senior credit manager. She will report into Matt...

West One Loans establishes ‘premier loan team’

West One Loans has set up a premier loan team to support intermediaries and...

Accord cuts down on ID red tape

Accord Mortgages has scrapped the requirement for copies of identification documents to be certified...

FSE Midlands seminar programme revealed

The finalised seminar programme for the Financial Services Expo (FSE) Midlands has been published. FSE Midlands...
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How brokers can secure better client outcomes in a volatile market

Experience has always counted in the mortgage market. Brokers who worked through the financial crisis, the Covid pandemic, the Liz Truss mini-Budget and cost-of-living...

Housing reform needs a thriving private rental sector, not just a thriving sales and purchase market

One of the most encouraging developments over recent weeks has been the renewed focus on improving the homebuying and selling process. The Government's plans to...

The economics of developing the next generation of advisers

Over the past couple of decades, I have worked alongside literally thousands of AR and DA firms, from businesses employing one or two advisers...

Is Andy Burnham the New Messiah or just Starmer with better eyebrows?

What a damning indictment of Labour that Andy Burnham appears to be strolling towards the leadership in what looks less like a contest and...

Approvals hit a 2.5-year low: When broker value gets proven – or missed

Net mortgage approvals dropped to 56,200 in May – the lowest since December 2023 - down from 66,000 the month before. Net borrowing fell from...

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LSL Financial Services appoints interim managing director

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