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Wales reports best first quarter for lending since 2007

Homeowners in Wales borrowed £850m for house purchase during the first three months of...

26% year-on-year increase in N. Ireland house purchases

During the first quarter of 2016, homeowners in Northern Ireland borrowed £340m for house...

Brits prioritise broadband and mobiles over protection

Although 21% of people have admitted their household would not be financially secure for...

New associate members for the CML

The CML has recruited a number of new associates in recent months, bringing the...

SortRefer offers POS posters to intermediaries

SortRefer has added a new set of specific point of sale (POS) posters to its marketing...

LSL establishes GI provider

LSL Property Services has unveiled a general insurance provider called First2Protect with products exclusively available...

Brilliant Solutions launches with Kensington

Brilliant Solutions has announced the addition of Kensington onto its lending panel for both the...

Computershare to consolidate mortgage servicing businesses

Computershare says it will service three out of every five outsourced UK mortgages from next...

HMRC reports “substantial” fall in transactions

HMRC's provisional seasonally adjusted UK property transaction count for April 2016 was 84,280 residential and...

20% rise in Nationwide’s gross mortgage lending

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that its gross mortgage advances reached £32.6 billion,...

Second charge lender secures new funding

Step One Finance has successfully completed an equity funding round participated by the Bravo...

Dragonfly appoints portfolio manager

Dragonfly Property Finance has hired David Dean as a portfolio manager in its development...

Paragon reports rise in profits and new lending

The Paragon Group of Companies has posted a 12.5% increase in underlying profits to £71.9...

Fleet changes limited company BTL criteria

Fleet Mortgages has made further criteria changes with a focus on the transfer of property...
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COMMENT

Comment

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...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

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Suffolk BS tops £800m in mortgage assets after strong 2025 growth

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Foundation returns with revised buy-to-let and residential mortgage range

Foundation has returned to the market with a revised product range across both buy-to-let...

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