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Get more from lead generation

Five lead generation strategies to help you get more from lead generation, by Justin...

Delay RDR by a year, Treasury Committee recommends

The Treasury Committee has recommended that there should be a 12 month delay to...

Scottish jobs market continues to improve

There was further improvement in the Scottish labour market during June, the Bank of...

Asking prices fall for first time in 2011

The average asking price of property coming to market fell for the first time...

Blemain to hold awards for specialist lending sector

Blemain Group is to launch specialist lending event. a The firm says the Blemain Group Awards...

New commercial appointment at Ageas

Ageas has appointed Roy Watkinson to the position of head of commercial pricing and...

Northern Rock cuts intermediary exclusive rates

Northern Rock has cut rates by up to 0.12 basis points on its Intermediary...

Rise in buy-to-let yields

Mortgages for Business has reported that average buy-to-let yields have risen quarter-on-quarter with vanilla...

Crystal’s BTL move &quotalready paying dividends&quot

Crystal Mortgages claims to have issued terms of over £2 million since entering the...

NAEA and ARLA elect new presidents

The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) and the Association of Residential Letting Agents...

Kensington merges operations and underwriting departments

Kensington says it has more than doubled its operations and underwriting capability in the...

TMW changes include Switch & Fix for all BTL trackers

The Mortgage Works (TMW) has made changes to its buy-to-let mortgage range. These include the...

Stressed out consumers need protection

Assurant Intermediary says that "stressed out consumers"" need advice on protection

PFA adds TBMC to panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added buy-to-let specialist TBMC to the lender panel of Paradigm...

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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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Perenna appoints industry veteran Steve Mannakee

Long-term fixed-rate mortgage lender Perenna has strengthened its distribution team with the appointment of...

Three more top lenders back Take Me Home Christmas charity concert

Support is flooding in for the mortgage industry’s biggest charitable event of the year...

Time Finance partners with British Business Bank to dispel invoice finance myths

Independent lender Time Finance has joined forces with the British Business Bank to challenge...

Shepherds Friendly names new chief executive

Shepherds Friendly has appointed Jonathan Sandell as its next chief executive, succeeding Ann-Marie O’Dea,...