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Fleet appoints new BDM

Fleet Mortgages has announced the appointment of a new business development manager (BDM) covering the...

TMA expands direct lender panel

TMA Mortgage Club, part of the LSL Property Services Group, is introducing seven new...

New BDMs for United Trust Bank

United Trust Bank has announced the appointment of two new asset finance business development managers...

Right Mortgage and Protection Network staff climb Snowdon

On 17 September head office staff from The Right Mortgage and Protection Network went...

New sales hire for Kent Reliance

Kent Reliance has unveiled a new addition to its sales team. Emily Machin has joined Kent...

L&G partners with the Skipton for GI distribution

Legal & General and Skipton Building Society have agreed a five-year general insurance distribution deal. Skipton...

New two-year deals from the Leeds

The Leeds Building Society has added new two-year fixed rate deals with £1,000 cashback...

Buy to Let Club to hold London event

The next Buy to Let Event will take place in Bracknell on 29 September,...

Homeowners staying put following Brexit vote

The vote to leave the European Union has made homebuyers and homeowners more cautious,...

L&G Business Quality Awards open for submission

Legal & General has unveiled its sixth annual Business Quality Awards (BQAs), with the Outstanding Customer...

Zoopla unveils mortgage in principle service

Zoopla has teamed up with online mortgage adviser Trussle to launch a new service for house...

The rise of the ‘silver renter’

Nearly half of tenants living in private rental accommodation across the UK are aged over...

Bridging lender sentiment returns

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has revealed that sentiment amongst bridging lenders...

80% of students already covered by parents’ insurance

Millions of undergraduates are covered under their parents’ contents insurance and don’t need a...

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First-time, accidental or professional? How the landlord profile is shifting in 2026

One of the most common misconceptions that people have about the buy-to-let market is that landlords are a single, uniform group. The reality is...

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

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Energy-efficient homes ‘may carry higher climate risks’

Some of the UK’s more energy-efficient homes could face greater long-term exposure to flooding...

New towns plan may help supply but risks falling short, says former RICS chair

The government’s announcement of seven proposed new towns has been broadly welcomed as a...

Buy-to-let mortgage rates rise as landlords face fresh cost pressures

Buy-to-let mortgage rates have risen sharply this month, while landlords are also facing further...

Virgin Money to take mortgage application systems offline for five days

Virgin money has announced that its Virgin Money and Clydesdale online application platforms will...

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