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Just Mortgages bolsters self-employed recruitment team

Just Mortgages has moved to strengthen its recruitment efforts with the appointment of Kara...

Rachel Geddes becomes MAB’s strategic partnerships director

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has made two new senior appointments. Rachel Geddes is to become...

SPF Private Clients opens office in Dubai

SPF Private Clients (SPF) has expanded its operations with the launch of an office...

Close Brothers Property Finance appoints MD for structured finance

Close Brothers Property Finance has announced the appointment of Chiara Caldwell to the newly...

IMLA membership boosted by Leek addition

Leek Building Society has joined the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA). The mutual's move brings...

West One starts BTL lending in Scotland

West One Loans buy-to-let division has begun to lend on Scottish properties. Brokers with clients...

CHL to hold broker webinar on limited company allowable expenses

The subject of the next free webinar organised by CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries will...

HTB restructures business development and makes new NE appointment

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has introduced a new structure within its specialist mortgages business...

Arc & Co. arranges €11.1m complex French bridge

Arc & Co. has completed a bridging loan worth €11.1m on two chalets and...

Paradigm adds ModaMortgages to panel

Paradigm has announced the addition of new specialist buy-to-let mortgage lender, ModaMortgages, to its...

2024 sellers saw lower price growth than during the pandemic

Hamptons has reported that property gains have moved back towards pre-pandemic levels due to...

HSBC makes residential mortgage cuts

HSBC is making reductions across its residential mortgage product ranges on Monday 13 January. The...

Large rise in crypto-backed lending enquiries

Enness Global has announced a tenfold rise in enquiries for Bitcoin-backed lending over the...

L&C Mortgages appoints chief marketing officer

L&C Mortgages has appointed Gemma Bacon as its chief marketing officer (CMO). Bacon's previous roles...
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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

In a week that saw more than 20 lenders reduce their fixed mortgage rates,...
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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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L&G launches later life lending campaign

L&G has launched a later life lending campaign featuring short documentary-style films highlighting the...
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West Brom reduces rates by up to 0.18%

West Brom Building Society has reduced rates across its two-year fixed purchase mortgage range,...

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