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Mortgage Brain rolls out MCD ready systems

Mortgage Brain is rolling out its Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD) ready systems for mortgage...

Ultimate Finance builds team

Ultimate Finance has made another appointment in the North West. Sean Thomson (pictured) joins as...

BUDGET 2016: Osborne ignores buy-to-let

The government left the buy-to-let sector alone in today's Budget. The market had feared further...

BUDGET 2016: the speech in full

Mr Deputy Speaker, Today I report on an economy set to grow faster than any...

BUDGET 2016: Lifetime ISAs introduced

The government is introducing a new Lifetime ISA for people under the age of...

BUDGET 2016: Money Advice Service to be scrapped?

It is widely expected that George Osborne is to set to scrap the Money...

BUDGET 2016: as it happened

BestAdvice will be comprehensively covering George Osborne's eighth Budget as Chancellor from 12.15pm today. Also,...

Highest Scottish January home sales in eight years

Average house prices in Scotland increased by £1,350, or 0.8%, in January 2016, according...

Complete FS expands lending panel

Specialist packager Complete FS has announced the addition of Bluestone Mortgages to its lending panel. Bluestone’s specialist...

Barclays makes BTL and residential rate changes

Barclays has made changes to its residential and buy-to-let product ranges including cutting rates by up to...

New buy-to-let deals from Paragon Mortgages

Paragon Mortgages has revamped its buy-to-let product range for individual landlords and limited companies. The...

Together funds rescue deal for 218 homes

Together and Creative Commercial Funding have completed a loan for £1.75 million that saved...

Cupis begins work at Openwork 

Openwork has announced that John Cupis has now joined the network as mortgage director. Cupis, whose appointment...

L&G improves Term and Terminal Illness cover

Legal & General has made changes to all its Term Assurance products and Terminal...

COMMENT

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,...

Five things brokers across the country are telling me right now

The thing I’ve always enjoyed most about working in the specialist mortgage market is the people. I’m lucky that a big part of my job...

Latest news

Virgin Money raises selected mortgage rates by up to 75bps

Virgin Money is increasing selected purchase, remortgage, buy-to-let and product transfer rates from Thursday...

Property sector must embrace long-term reform to withstand global shocks, says OPDA

The Open Property Data Association (OPDA) has called on the government to adopt a...

Rent rises hold steady as UK house price growth slows

Private rents across the UK rose at the same annual rate in February, while...

Movera reports rise in completions as expansion gathers pace

Home moving group Movera has reported a sharp increase in activity across its conveyancing...

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