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Gatehouse Bank improves online DiP facility

Gatehouse Bank has made changes to its online Decision in Principle (DIP) facility, by...

Atom bank completes fourth case with care home provider

Atom bank has continued its relationship with an existing care home provider customer, delivering...

Sirius Finance provides £8m revolving credit facility

Sirius Finance has completed an £8m revolving credit facility to fund the refinancing of...

GDPR is fake scapegoat for Consumer Duty failures

Businesses that are falsely blaming GDPR for non-compliance with Consumer Duty are risking severe...

LiveMore achieves triple digit growth in revenue and lending

LiveMore has calculated that it will have generated year-on-year growth of 300% in revenue...

Funding 365 reveals new head of relationship management

Funding 365 has announced the promotion of Allegra Sykes to head of relationship management. Sykes...

Shepherds Friendly appoints chair

Shepherds Friendly has announced the appointment of Mark Myers as its new chair. The society,...

Finova reconfigures senior leadership team

Finova has announced important changes to its senior leadership team. Paraag Davé is formally taking...

Bluestone improves criteria and application process

Bluestone Mortgages has announced criteria and system updates in order to streamline its mortgage...

Simplybiz Mortgages adds Penrith BS to panel

Simplybiz Mortgages has appointed Penrith Building Society to its lender panel. Established in 1877, Penrith...

Fiducia Commercial Network appoints Chambers

Fiducia Commercial Network has appointed Norman Chambers as its new executive relationship director. Chambers (pictured)...

HTB appoints bridging BDM for Anglia and Midlands

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has bolstered its bridging team with the appointment of Daniel...

Friday 13th Horror: GW Legal gets closed down by regulator and won’t open again

Conveyancing firm GW Legal was shut down by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on...

Uncertainty looms over UK housing market in 2025 amid budget and tax changes

The UK housing market faces a challenging start to 2025, as tax changes, geopolitical...
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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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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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