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New CEO for AEGON UK

AEGON has appointed Adrian Grace as CEO of its UK business. He will replace Otto...

LV= enhances IP and CI cover

LV= has improved its income protection and critical illness offerings. The income protection improvements include...

Precise offers Sesame two exclusives and added to panel

Precise Mortgages has been added to Sesame's lending panel. The intermediary near-prime residential and buy-to-let...

ABI appoints new director general

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has appointed Otto Thoresen as its new director...

UTB launches new bridging rates

United Trust Bank (UTB) has unveiled its premium new bridging rates, which start from...

Tenet wants fundamental review of UK regulation

Tenet wants a wider approach to be adopted by the Treasury Select Committee (TSC)...

Female entrepreneurialism crucial for economic growth

The government must increase female-owned businesses if it is to really grow the economy,...

NACFB holds assets finance event

The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) has hailed its first asset finance...

Homeowners at risk of underinsuring contents

Homeowners are being urged to go over their home contents policy to avoid underinsurance. The...

CHL maintains workplace excellence award

CHL Mortgages has again the recipient of the top Three Star Status Award in...

MPC hawk Sentance to be replaced

Ben Broadbent will succeed Andrew Sentance as external member on the Monetary Policy Committee...

TMA adds Aldermore to lending panel

The Mortgage Alliance (TMA) has added Aldermore Mortgages to its lending panel. TMA's directly authorised...

Tiuta reduces bridging rates

Tiuta has cut rates on its bridging products by up to 0.40%. The short to...

Aldermore makes M4 corridor appointment

Aldermore has appointed Helena Cairns as regional sales manager for the Thames Valley area. The...

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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...