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New tracker rates from the Nationwide

Nationwide has made rate changes to its two-year and three-year tracker rate mortgages for...

Masthaven added to Only Bridging panel

Only Bridging has appointed the recently FSA regulated Masthaven Bridging Finance to its lender...

Pension property wealth reduced by £18bn

Over-65 homeowners have lost average of £4,290 each, due to falling property prices, according...

Paragon subsidiary unveils portfolio insurance

Paragon Landlord Insurance has released details of its new portfolio insurance product. Portfolio Insurance is...

Average UK household debt is £57,697

Total UK personal debt at the end of February 2011 stood at £1,454 billion,...

Paradigm adds Aldermore to panels

Aldermore's range of residential and buy-to-let products are available with immediate effect to both...

Omnii Solutions appoints head of sales

Simon Baker has joined Omnii Solutions as its head of sales. He joins the mortgage...

Barclays tops complaint charts

Barclays Bank Plc had the largest number of complaints made against it during the...

New look for the Cambridge

The Cambridge Building Society has unveiled its new branding. The mutual, which has been operating...

Lloyds appoints branch sale advisers

Lloyds Banking Group has appointed J.P. Morgan and Citigroup as joint financial advisers on...

New chief exec for Royal London

Royal London has appointed Phil Loney as group chief executive. He joins from Lloyds Banking...

Rise in mutuals’ mortgage lending

Mortgages worth £1.7 billion were approved by building societies in February, according to their...

Target fills client services role

Target Group has appointed Dominic Mehta as its client services manager. He joins the financial...

Aldermore raises buy-to-let property limit

Aldermore has increased the maximum number of properties it will accept on residential buy-to-let...

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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...

Supercharging affordability: a broker’s tool for unlocking complex cases

If you could choose a superpower, what would it be? The ability to see the future? To slow down time? To get every case...

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Generation X faces retirement squeeze with smaller pensions than parents

Generation X risks becoming the first cohort to retire with less financial security than...

Leasehold reforms stall as sector warns of ‘real-world consequences’

The government is under mounting pressure to accelerate leasehold reform as the body representing...

Zoopla warns cost pressures mean housing targets are at risk

The government’s flagship target to deliver 1.5m new homes over the next five years...

UTB cuts bridging loan minimum and lowers regulated rates

United Trust Bank has unveiled a package of bridging loan changes aimed at making...