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Crystal’s completions up 153%

Crystal Specialist Finance issued terms on £401m worth of business from January to March,...

Generation Rent still have homebuying aspirations

Halifax's 2016 Generation Rent report has found that delays in getting onto the housing ladder...

LendInvest to move into longer-term loans

LendInvest has secured a warehouse financing facility with Macquarie for an initial amount of...

Simon Stern joins Equifinance as consultant

Equifinance has appointed Simon Stern as a strategic consultant to develop the company’s distribution,...

Kensington prices £350m securitisation

Kensington Mortgages has raised further funding in the capital markets through a new securitisation,...

Openwork reveals its largest mortgage AR

Openwork has announced that Just Mortgages Direct has now officially transitioned to the network,...

Land Registry: house prices down 0.5% in March

The Land Registry March house price data has revealed a monthly price fall of 0.5%. The...

TML reveals launch distributor panel

The Mortgage Lender (TML), which is due to launch in May, has teamed up...

Rate of house price growth slows down

The Nationwide Building Society has revealed that, while house prices in the UK increased...

One in seven to retire without pension this year

14% of people retiring in 2016 has made no provision for their retirement and will...

4 in 10 new homes rejected across Greater London

Approvals for new homes in the capital fell by 64% from the same point...

NACFB on schedule to meet ‘road map’

The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) says it is on track to meet...

Paragon: decline in landlords’ purchasing intentions

Landlords are strengthening their credit profiles as they shift investment away from new acquisitions...

Conveyancing Association improves progression training

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has announced a series of updates and enhancements to its...

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The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

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Foundation refreshes buy-to-let range with new products and rate cuts

Foundation has refreshed its buy-to-let mortgage range with new products and rate reductions across...

MorganAsh urges financial services firms to improve support for unpaid carers

MorganAsh has backed a new Carers UK blueprint aimed at building more carer-friendly communities,...

Family BS strengthens intermediary team with BDM appointment

Family Building Society has appointed Sam Byrne as business development manager for the northern...

Buckinghamshire cuts rates across credit repair ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has reduced selected rates across its Credit Revive and Credit Restore...

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