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Conveyancing Alliance launches Convey99

Conveyancing Alliance Ltd has unveiled Convey99, a new purchase conveyancing product. It is offered at...

A-broadening one’s horizons

Look overseas for extra revenue, suggests Phil Whitehouse, head of The Mortgage Alliance (TMA) The...

Community projects targeted by Blemain

Blemain Group has launched a committee to help staff get involved in community projects. The...

Aldermore bolsters invoice finance team

Aldermore has appointed Lee Dawson as regional sales manager for its invoice finance team...

Skipton offers 95% LTV two-year fix

Skipton Building Society has unveiled a new range of mortgages, including a two-year fixed...

L&G improves online quote & apply system

Legal & General says it has made "major improvements"" to OLP Connect

Broker banned over lack of honesty and integrity

The FSA has banned Rienzie Albert Joseph Asoka Silva of South Croydon from performing...

Sizeable minority of landlords raised rents in Q1

32% of landlords have raised rents across their portfolios during the first quarter of...

IntelliFlo hires test team manager

Technology provider IntelliFlo has appointed Pooja Shanthraj as test team manager. At IntelliFlo she will...

Is ‘growth first’ the right strategy?

There are different views across the pond over how best to deal with inflation,...

Let employees dictate the influence of mobile working

Let your workers have control over their technology, argues Paul Hunt, managing director of...

Aldermore expands remortgage offering

Aldermore has unveiled a series of new remortgage products. The fixed and variable rate remortgage...

New 5-yr fix from the Leeds

Leeds Building Society has expanded its five-year fixed rate mortgage range. Rates now start from...

The Yorkshire looks towards N&P ‘merger’

Yorkshire Building Society has revealed that it is in discussions with Norwich and Peterborough...

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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...