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Major lending increase for Roma Finance

Roma Finance, the Manchester based bridging finance and development lender, has reported a 300% increase...

Kensington reviews lending policy

Kensington has switched to paperless application processing and reviewed its lending policy, including changes to policies on...

Five new BDMs for NatWest IS

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has appointed five new business development managers (BDMs). Three of the BDMS...

Enterprise: secured lending breaks £1bn barrier

January 2016 saw secured lending reach a five-year high, according to the latest Enterprise Finance Secured...

TSB unveils new deals to support ‘affordable’ housing

TSB is expanding its Affordable Housing offering available through brokers. Broadening its Help to...

Trio of promotions at Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has announced three internal staff promotions with the creation of new roles. Mark Whitear...

FHL: longer-term BTL rates should appease FPC

Foundation Home Loans’ commercial director, Simon Bayley, believes that much of the issue surrounding...

Virgin Money cuts residential and BTL rates

Virgin Money has made rate cuts on certain products across its core residential and buy-to-let mortgage...

First-time buyer numbers remain resilient

There has been an annual 6.6% rise in the number of households purchasing their...

Mortgage rates fall to record lows

February saw record lows in average rates for two and three-year fixed mortgage deals,...

Asset finance firm makes £60m SME pledge

Ultimate Finance’s new offices in Glasgow and Leeds have committed £30m each, over the next 12...

FCA reveals fall in complaints

The Financial Conduct Authority has stated that there was a decrease of 1.4% in...

IMLA fears PRA action will dumb down buy-to-let market

The intermediary Mortgage Lenders' Association (IMLA) has responded to the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) consultation...

Land Registry data shows London roaring ahead

House price data for February 2016 from the Land Registry shows a monthly fall...
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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...

What building the future means for mortgages

Earlier this month I attended the Abundance 360 summit in Los Angeles, Peter Diamandis’s annual gathering of entrepreneurs, scientists, tech CEOs and investors who are,...

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Mortgage submissions surge as advisers rush to secure rates amid market volatility

Mortgage submissions rose sharply in the wake of geopolitical tensions, as brokers moved quickly...
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MorganAsh launches calculator to help firms estimate scale of customer vulnerability

MorganAsh has launched a calculator designed to help financial services firms gauge how many...
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Average mortgage rate reaches 5.50% as market reprices

The average mortgage rate tracked by Moneyfacts has climbed to 5.50% for the first...
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RSM UK urges action as house price growth stalls and transactions fall

RSM UK is calling for stamp duty reform and more support for first-time buyers...

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