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Hampshire Trust Bank makes BDE hire

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has bolstered its specialist mortgages business development team with the...

Afin Bank appoints senior underwriter

Afin Bank has appointed Simrat Gill as senior underwriter, as it continues to build...

Suffolk Building Society joins IMLA

Suffolk Building Society has become the latest lender to join the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders...

Hope Capital records best volumes for 18 months

Hope Capital has reported a record month for business following the introduction of its...

MPowered reduces pricing on two & three-year fixes

MPowered Mortgages has cut its two and three-year fixed-rate mortgages. The changes are applicable to...

Coventry for intermediaries reduces rates on select fixed rate deals

Coventry for intermediaries has lowered selected fixed rates for both residential and buy-to-let applications. Rates...

District & County Investments joins BDLA

District & County Investments has become the latest lender to join the Bridging &...

Inspired Lending funds industrial site acquisition

Inspired Lending has completed a £2.4 million bridging facility to facilitate the acquisition of...

ASG Finance launches HNW funding offering

ASG Finance, a provider of commercial bridging solutions, has launched Base Rate Beater secured...

First-time buyer activity recovery continues

UK house prices experienced a 0.4% increase in February, marking the sixth consecutive month...

Housing market steadies as January sees 14% annual rise in transactions

Residential property transactions showed signs of stabilisation at the start of the year with...

Virgin Money cuts selected purchase, remortgage & product transfer BTL rates

Virgin Money has implemented reductions in selected buy-to-let fixed mortgage rates, effective today, Friday,...

LHV Bank funds hotel acquisition amid group restructuring

LHV Bank has provided a £2.3 million commercial investment loan to assist with the...

Suros Capital provides finance for new art gallery

Suros Capital, the luxury asset-backed short-term lender, has provided finance to support the opening...
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Housing reform needs a thriving private rental sector, not just a thriving sales and purchase market

One of the most encouraging developments over recent weeks has been the renewed focus on improving the homebuying and selling process. The Government's plans to...

The economics of developing the next generation of advisers

Over the past couple of decades, I have worked alongside literally thousands of AR and DA firms, from businesses employing one or two advisers...

Is Andy Burnham the New Messiah or just Starmer with better eyebrows?

What a damning indictment of Labour that Andy Burnham appears to be strolling towards the leadership in what looks less like a contest and...

Approvals hit a 2.5-year low: When broker value gets proven – or missed

Net mortgage approvals dropped to 56,200 in May – the lowest since December 2023 - down from 66,000 the month before. Net borrowing fell from...

Removing friction from the homebuying journey

One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...

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Swap rates fall but funding risks remain, warns Moneyfacts

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Growing calls for government to overhaul Stamp Duty for FTBs

Mortgage industry figures are urging the government to review stamp duty for first-time buyers...
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West Brom reduces rates by up to 0.18%

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