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The Lending Wizard becomes Freedom for Intermediaries

Freedom Finance has rebranded the Lending Wizard as Freedom for Intermediaries. The revamped...

Rise in bridging as first choice to secure property

Alpha Bridging has claimed that bridging finance is becoming a first port of call...

Positive completes largest ever Paragon secured loan

Positive Lending has announced the completion of a £300,000 secured loan with Paragon Personal...

New limited company BTL policy for Kent Reliance and InterBay

OneSavings Bank brands Kent Reliance and InterBay Commercial have announced a new policy for...

IMLA: Basel proposals could scupper B&B sale

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders' Association (IMLA) has warned that Basel proposals mean Bradford &...

Dragonfly resuscitates complex offshore deal

Dragonfly Property Finance has revealed that it completed a "highly complex" £1.5m deal for a British...

Source Commercial unveils online proposition

Source Commercial Online has launched, allowing brokers to quote, buy and amend landlord portfolio...

February lending up 30% year-on-year

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has estimated that gross mortgage lending reached £17.6...

Paradigm hires partnership development manager

Paradigm Mortgage Services has appointed Neil Jackson as its new partnership development manager. Within...

No change from the MPC

The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has once again voted to keep...

IFA wins young achiever insurance award

Rachel Lane, independent financial adviser of Weybridge based Group Rapport has recently won the Insurance...

Mortgage Trust open for consumer buy-to-let

Paragon Mortgages is now accepting applications for consumer buy-to-let via its sister brand Mortgage Trust. Its...

New five-year FTB fix from the Saffron

Saffron For Intermediaries has launched a limited edition five-year fixed rate mortgage for first-time...

National account hires for network

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has appointed Aidan McCarthy and Philip Emanuel as...

COMMENT

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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Ampla Finance unveils Untangled rebrand as it broadens specialist lending ambitions

Specialist lender Ampla Finance has launched a new brand identity, Untangled, as it looks...

Halifax retains top spot in broker satisfaction survey

Halifax has once again been named the best overall lender for broker experience in...

Nationwide cuts switcher mortgage rates for existing borrowers

Nationwide is reducing rates across its switcher mortgage range for existing customers by up...

Hinckley & Rugby adds visa mortgage products to offering

Hinckley & Rugby for intermediaries has launched four two-year discount visa mortgage products across...

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