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Alex Hammond quits Castle Trust to set up own firm

Alex Hammond has left Castle Trust to start a public relations and content business...

New two-year deal from Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has launched a new two-year, fixed-rate product within its standard range. The new product...

JLM Mortgage Services appoints COO

Network JLM Mortgage Services has announced the appointment of Daniel Leach as its new...

Sesame adds Uinsure to GI panel

Sesame Network has expanded its general insurance (GI) offering for member firms with the...

Together appoints new BDM for London

Together has hired a new business development manager (BDM) for London. Sophie Guest (pictured) has...

Lender sees major rise in ‘silver bridgers’

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) says it has seen a sharp increase in ‘silver bridgers’...

Annual house price growth in Scotland now 3.5%

House prices in Scotland returned to growth in November 2017, rising 0.3% and raising...

‘Rogue’ property agents plague Brits

New research from Propertymark has found that a significant number of people in the...

Legal & General Mortgage Club events calendar published

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced its 2018 calendar of events. The half...

Recruitment drive at Vida Homeloans

Vida Homeloans is recruiting three new roles and promoting three senior sales people.  Sally Wright,...

Metro Bank appoints commercial banking director

Metro Bank has announced the appointment of Jamie Sim as a commercial banking director...

Limited company BTL purchases outstrip remortgages

The latest Mortgages for Business Limited Company Buy-to-let Index has revealed that in the final quarter...

New self-employed exclusive from Newcastle Intermediaries

Newcastle Intermediaries has launched another self-employed mortgage exclusive. The two year fixed product at 2.20%...

Johnny Depp Jokes About Assassinating Trump, Then Apologizes

Intro text we refine our methods of responsive web design, we’ve increasingly focused on...

COMMENT

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...

Removing friction from the homebuying journey

One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...

Build, baby, build? Well we will need to fund more than the usual suspects

There was a noticeable sense of optimism at UKREiiF this year. That may sound surprising given the economic headwinds of recent years, but the...

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market riding high

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market has created real value for customers – there’s no excuse to ignore it. When a UK borrower reaches 55,...

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LiveMore appoints Charles Roe as industry adviser

Specialist lender LiveMore has appointed Charles Roe as industry adviser. Roe joins LiveMore with a...

Squirrel Financial Planning grows to seven in first year

Squirrel Financial Planning has grown from a one-person mortgage and financial planning business to...

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...

Mortgage repayments set to rise for 5m households by 2028

More than five million households are projected to see their mortgage repayments increase by...

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