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DM Hall appoints East of Scotland head of agency

Scottish chartered surveying firm DM Hall has appointed a senior commercial professional to its East Coast-based...

First Complete & Pink urges broker action over BTL changes

First Complete and Pink are calling for brokers to ensure landlords on their books...

BFS opens new Wales office

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) is opening a new office in Wales. The SME funder supports more...

Front Events reveals Midlands events

Front Events, organisers of the Financial Services Expo (FSE) exhibitions, will be running two...

Paragon team to tackle Three Peaks

A Paragon Mortgages team of eight regional sales managers (RSM) is taking on the...

Bluestone Mortgages appoints MD

Bluestone Group has announced the appointment of David Torpey as managing director of Bluestone Mortgages and...

Paul Brett joins Landbay

Landbay has appointed Paul Brett as managing director, intermediaries. He joins the peer-to-peer investment platform from...

Promise offers free landlord tax consultations

Master broker Promise Specialist Lending is providing landlords with a free telephone consultation with...

Magellan products now available through PMS 

Magellan Homeloans' range of products are now available to members of the PMS Mortgage...

Working into late seventies could become necessity

Those people who plan a ‘flexible’ retirement, reducing their working hours in later life...

More Than Landlord Insurance offer renewal guarantee

More Than Landlord Insurance has issued a guarantee that landlords will pay the same...

Landlords shifting towards commercial loans

The proportion of landlords intending to take out commercial loans to fund their property...

Oxford is UK’s least affordable city

Home affordability, as measured by the ratio between average city house prices and average...

Rental market “far from reaching equilibrium”

ARLA Propertymark has revealed that in January, there were 34 prospective tenants registered per...

COMMENT

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...

Don’t rein me in

For many years, major financial institutions and large retailers have understood the benefits of presenting their customers with complementary products alongside their core offering. Banks...

More questions now surround the home moving digital journey

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has published its highly anticipated Home Buying and Selling Reform Roadmap, representing the most aggressive...

Stability has value: why the latest Bank Base Rate hold matters

The Bank of England's decision to maintain Bank Base Rate (BBR) at 3.75% may not have generated the excitement that often accompanies a rate...

If you motivate an idiot you just get stupid things done quicker

There's a lot of excitement about artificial intelligence in the mortgage industry right now. Nearly nine in 10 mortgage brokers want technology to play...

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The West Brom promotes Gareth Madeley to chief customer officer

West Brom Building Society has appointed Gareth Madeley as its new chief customer officer,...

Industry leaders unite behind MIMHC Lunch

HSBC UK, Virgin Money, Nottingham Building Society, Landbay and top broker firms Mortgage Advice...

Santander raises foreign national mortgage lending to 90% LTV

Santander UK has expanded its foreign national mortgage policy by increasing the maximum loan-to-value...

Keystone passes £2bn in securitisation issuance with sixth Hops Hill deal

Keystone Property Finance has completed its sixth securitisation, taking total issuance under its Hops...

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