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Aldermore offers 100% FTB deal via family guarantee

Aldermore has unveiled a mortgage specifically designed to help first time buyers get a...

New adviser structure at Jump Money

Jump Money has introduced a three-tier structure for its protection and general insurance (GI)...

CML backs new conveyancing compliance tool

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has welcomed JET, the new online compliance tool...

Fitch upgrades HML&’039s special servicer rating

HML has received a special servicing upgrade for the second year running and has...

Accord cuts prices of 85% deals

Accord Mortgages has cut up to 0.45 percentage points from the cost of its...

NCI integrates to Charlbury Group system

NCI, providers of specialised field services to banks, building societies, lending institutions and solicitors...

Bogus financial adviser jailed

A bogus financial adviser who fraudulently manipulated his 'clients'' pension funds to avoid paying...

Dragonfly acquires Maslow Capital

Dragonfly Property Finance has acquired specialist mezzanine lender Maslow Capital in what is says...

JC Flowers makes further cash injection into OneSavings Bank

OneSavings Bank Plc, the bank created from the JC Flowers investment into Kent Reliance...

Insurance broker &’039guarantees to beat&’039 commercial premiums

Property insurance wholesale broker Keelan Westall has launched its 'Guarantee to beat'. It 'guarantees' to...

Kids&’039 costs forcing women to delay retirement

Over a quarter of working women in their 50s are delaying retirement to support...

First direct espouses overpayment from lodger income

First direct has launched a range of new offset mortgage rates. The direct bank...

Blemain Group improves HR processes

Blemain Group has invested in an integrated IT system, Cascade HR. The business now employs...

Central Trust improves criteria through Norton Broker Services

Norton Broker Services has announced changes to Central Trust's lending criteria. The maximum secured loan...

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Mortgages, mutuality, members and making a difference

Anyone working in the mortgage market knows that a key area of our measurement is sales. How many cases we complete, the value of...

Stability is not a slowdown; it’s exactly what the bridging market needs

So, according to the recent Bridging & Development Lenders Association (BDLA) figures, bridging completions fell in Q2. Cue the usual hand-wringing. The headlines landed, the...

The rise of the silver pound

UK house prices may have cooled from their peak, but affordability pressures remain acute. Even with recent adjustments to interest rates, rising property values have...

Staggering stamp duty will make it easier for people to move

A proposal to spread stamp duty land tax payments across several years, in an effort to drive growth and boost the housing market, is...

Making Digital Sales Ready properties the norm, not the exception

Digital Sales Ready listings and upfront information have the potential to transform the home buying and selling journey, creating faster, more transparent transactions with...

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The Vernon named employer of the year at Stockport Business Awards

Vernon Building Society has been recognised as Employer of the Year at the Stockport...

Mark Bogard on policy, politics and the future of advice

When Mark Bogard, Chief Executive of Family Building Society, talks about Britain’s housing policy,...

MAB’s Brodnicki urges brokers embrace  technology, data and AI to make the intermediary proposition even more compelling than it is today

Peter Brodnicki, chief executive of the Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), told brokers they must...

Clydesdale Bank to overhaul variable rate mortgage range

Clydesdale Bank will withdraw a number of products and introduce new variable rate deals...