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Keystone Property Finance cuts all rates by 15bps

Keystone Property Finance has made cuts across all of its buy-to-let rates by 15...

HTB funds £7m portfolio purchase

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has provided a £7 million bridging loan to help fund...

OMS pilots fast quote platform for second charges

One Mortgage System (OMS) has begun a pilot for 'Second Charges Quick Quote', its...

Pivot boosts funding 50%

Development lender Pivot has arranged an increase of 50% in its lending capacity from...

PEXA makes two key hires

PEXA has announced two senior appointments to spearhead growth and support rollout of its...

Fish & Chips after dancing the night away at Raquels with The Two Russells… Rob Jupp reveals all

Mortgage giant Rob Jupp reveals all on episode 22 of The Two Russells podcast...

KSEYE welcomes two new recruits to sales team

KSEYE has appointed two new experienced business development managers (BDMs) to its sales team. Bethan...

Top 10 areas for BTL investment in 2024 revealed

Paragon Bank has used its own lending data to establish the top 10 locations...

Lendco joins PMS lender panel

PMS Mortgage Club has added specialist buy-to-let and bridging lender Lendco to its panel. It...

Major rise in second home stamp duty receipts post Autumn Budget

Analysis of HMRC statistics by Coventry Building Society has found that the stamp duty...

Assetz Capital reduces development finance rates to 9.1%

Assetz Capital has cut its development finance rates. Its headline rates now start from 9.1%. Andrew...

Silbury provides extra £33m loan for Old Kent Road scheme

Silbury Finance, the Oaktree Capital Management-backed specialist lender, has upsized and extended an existing...

UTB’s bridging rates now from 0.58% pcm

United Trust Bank Bridging has rate reductions across its range of regulated and unregulated...

Signature in charity partnership with special school

Short-term lender, Signature Property Finance, has announced a charity partnership with Ysgol Ty Coch,...

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Just over a week ago Angela Rayner resigned following the discovery of a Stamp Duty breach on a flat she owns in Hove. She...

AI could make obsolescence obsolete and slash global e-waste

For decades, technology has been trapped in a cycle of forced obsolescence. Each year, a new iPhone or Android release quietly renders last year’s...

Discount Market Value: a local solution for a national housing challenge

The UK housing market is under constant scrutiny, especially when it comes to bolstering the supply of affordable housing. The government’s recent announcement of a...

Don’t overlook lifetime mortgages for clients with IHT worries

Lifetime mortgages have evolved significantly over the last few years. The industry has risen to the challenge, developing innovative new product features which ensure...

You can’t just turn on a tap and expect housing supply to flow

Yawn and stretch, the government have appointed a new housing Czar in place of the thoroughly discredited Angie Rayner, former Deputy Prime Minister, who...

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Brokers see rise in demand for business acquisition funding

Demand for funding to support business acquisitions is growing among UK SMEs, even as...

Phoebus joins Aston University to pioneer AI tools for mortgage servicing

Aston University has teamed up with Phoebus Software to create what is being described...

UK’s outdated homebuying system costs £1.5bn a year, says Santander

Half a million failed transactions annually leave buyers out of pocket and weigh heavily...

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