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Connect for Intermediaries adds West One Loans to bridging panel

Connect for Intermediaries has added West One Loans to its panel of bridging lenders....

Andrew Haldane reappointed to MPC

The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has reappointed Andrew Haldane, the...

L&C calls for annual protection statements

L&C Mortgages has added its voice to the call for the protection industry to...

Gary Bailey to leave Together after two decades

Together has announced that its sales director Gary Bailey is leaving the business, after...

Newcastle Intermediaries offers deals to North East FTBs

Newcastle Intermediaries has unveiled an exclusive range of fixed rate mortgages aimed at helping...

Accord tweaks residential range

Accord Mortgages has made changes its residential mortgages. The intermediary-only lender, which is part of...

The Mansfield launches affordability calculator

The Mansfield Building Society has introduced a new, web-enabled affordability calculator. The new affordability calculator,...

Vida unveils expat buy-to-let offering

Vida Homeloans is introducing a new 'Vida Expat' buy-to-let mortgage range. The lender says its...

Octane Capital hires director of commercial real estate finance

Octane Capital has recruited Matthew Bird as its new director of commercial real estate...

Lending up at Earl Shilton Building Society

The Earl Shilton Building Society has reported overall growth of 2.99%, up from 2.27%...

New interest-only & residential deals from the Skipton

The Skipton Building Society has launched a new interest-only mortgage range and made cuts...

L&G reveals award winners

Legal & General has announced the winners of its annual Mortgage Club Awards. Halifax, NatWest...

Sharp slowdown in house sales in London

House prices in England and Wales rallied to a new peak in May, according...

£50,000? You’ve got to be joking!

Ed Tackas is the sales director of BestAdvice Saturday 3rd June, Epsom Derby Day. We'd hired...

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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,...

How small and medium-sized lenders can fix the origination headache

We are constantly told that to fix the mortgage journey, we need to rip everything out and start again. That unless a lender replaces its...

A new PM brings a new opportunity to rethink housing policy

Politics, as it seems to do in recent times, has moved at remarkable speed over the last couple of weeks. In what feels like...

With great power comes great responsibility

There has been a huge amount in the press about the “feudal” system of leasehold and how the government’s revitalised commonhold will fix all...

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Foundation reintroduces pound-for-pound remortgage product

Foundation has reintroduced its F1 pound-for-pound (£4£) remortgage product and reduced rates across its...

Paymentshield boosts sales team

Paymentshield has made a series of sales appointments, in a move it said reinforces...

Key Partnerships urges advisers to raise standards

Firms referring customers for later life lending advice must place greater focus on best...

Together appoints corporate affairs director

Specialist lender Together has appointed Kate Grimoldby as its new corporate affairs director, reporting...

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