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Landbay unveils new Limited Edition remortgage products

Landbay has bolstered its product proposition with the launch of a new limited edition...

ONP Solicitors opens new Cardiff office

ONP Solicitors, part of home moving group Movera, is to open its first office...

Hilco provides £21.3m dev exit loan

Hilco Real Estate Finance (HREF) has provided a family-owned London property developer with a...

Gen H cuts rates for fourth consecutive week

Gen H has announced rate reductions for the fourth time in as many weeks. The...

Aldermore supports management buy-in with asset finance facility

Aldermore bank has provided a multi-million pound asset based lending (ABL) facility to Astwood...

Suros Capital funds renovation of student flats within 24 hours

Suros Capital has provided a fast funding solution for a client who needed a...

Market Financial Solutions extends institutional funding line

Market Financial Solutions has renegotiated and extended an institutional funding line worth £1.5 billion...

Paragon Bank’s new limited edition BTL rates start at 4.74%

Paragon Bank has launched limited edition five-year fixed-rate deals at 65% loan to value...

Surprise as house prices surge at fastest rate in two years

House prices in the UK rose at their quickest pace in two years in...

West One lowers buy-to-let rates

West One Loans has cut rates in its buy-to-let range by up to 15...

Sirius Finance completes Sussex pub transaction

Sirius Finance has completed a multi-million-pound deal to fund the purchase of a new...

Finova Broker adds Norton Broker Services to club panel

Norton Broker Services has been added to the finova Payment & Mortgage Services’ (fPMS)...

Simply Conveyancing shuts Peterborough office, citing strategic shift, amid pre-Christmas redundancies

Simply Conveyancing has announced the closure of its Peterborough office, with over half of...

Hope Capital partners with DeskVal for quicker turnarounds

Hope Capital has teamed up with DeskVal to offer a new, "instant" automated system...

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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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Landlord sales slow following Renters’ Right Act

The share of homes listed for sale that were previously rented dropped to 9.2%...

Knowledge Bank teams up with Brilliant Solutions for specialist lending cases

Knowledge Bank has formed a partnership with specialist mortgage packager Brilliant Solutions as demand...

FCA urges firms to strengthen product design under Consumer Duty

The Financial Conduct Authority has highlighted examples of improved product governance under the Consumer...

Validate appoints Louise Shute as managing director

Valuation specialist Validate has appointed Louise Shute as managing director as it continues to...

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