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OFT welcomes injunction against ‘debt sale’ firm

Birmingham Trading Standards has obtained an interim Enforcement Order against 'debt sale' company Momentum...

Tenet worried by regulation on the horizon

Tenet has expressed concerns over the amount of proposed regulatory changes, which the IFA...

Bright Grey attains Investors In People status

Bright Grey has been awarded awarded Investors in People (IIP) gold standard following a...

COMMENT: seeking the high ground

High net worth clients are worth the effort in finding, writes Phil Whitehouse, head...

OPINION: green shoots show the pundits were wrong

There have been positive developments in the second charge market, argues Dave Pinnington, business...

HSBC’s new ‘split loan’ mortgage applauded

HSBC has unveiled a Split Loan Mortgage which allows customers to fix a proportion...

Link pleased with relaunch results

Link Loans, the secured lender which relaunched in mid March, says that during the...

The Leeds raises money for Marie Curie

Leeds Building Society has raised over £800 for the 2010 Marie Curie Cancer Care...

Job losses likely at HML

164 jobs at HML are at risk of redundancy, the company announced today. Following HML's...

London firm faces charges over consumer credit transgressions

The Office of Fair Trading has brought charges against London North Securities Limited and...

New face in Promise’s broker support team

Umma Parekh has joined Promise Solutions with responsibility for new broker relationships. She is tasked...

Godiva cuts BTL fixed rate

Godiva Mortgages has cut the pay rate on its two-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage...

New capped base rate tracker from the Coventry

Coventry Building Society has launched a capped base rate tracker. It is priced at +2.49%...

Blu Debt Management selected by Home of Choice

Home of Choice has chosen Blu Debt Management as the debt solutions provider for...

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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...