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2015 an “excellent year” for Aldermore

Aldermore has reported an increase in lending for 2015 across all of the sector...

Year-on-year growth across all types of lending

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that home-owners borrowed £8.4bn for house purchase,...

Record lending for More 2 Life

Lifetime mortgage provider More 2 Life recording a record year for its lending in 2015. Total applications...

FCA to contact 16,000 debt management customers

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is writing to 16,000 customers of debt management firm PDHL, which...

Call for introduction of Help to Buy pensions

NFU Mutual has said that people struggling to get on the property ladder could...

0.8% monthly rise in house prices

House prices in February 2016 rose to a new high of £289,229, up by...

Conveyancers want stability from Budget 

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has urged George Osborne to "favour stability over continued change"...

Buy-to-let ‘gained chokehold’ over first-time buyers

The proportion of buy-to-let mortgage enquiries on Comparethemarket.com grew by 4.4% to 18.2% during...

Warning sounded over pension withdrawal for property investment

Portal Financial has revealed a significant increase in enquiries from people looking to access their...

Average length of time in PRS rises to 14 years

A survey of more than 800 Private Rented Sector (PRS) tenants has found high...

Pivot Finance selects Target technology

Bridging and development finance lender Pivot Finance has chosen Target Group to provide its Bluechip...

Brokers need to keep generating new business

Foundation Home Loans (FHL) has warned that brokers could find themselves short of new business now...

MTF hires head of new business

Bridging finance provider MTF has appointed James Anderson to the position of head of...

Strong February partnership for Enterprise and Together

Enterprise Finance and Together completed £4.3m in second charge transactions between them last month. For...
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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...

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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...
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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...
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Rent rises hold steady as UK house price growth slows

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