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SPF secures £26.8m development loan

Broker SPF Private Clients (SPF) has arranged a £26.8m development loan on the 444-acre...

Aspen provides £3m bridge-to-let on 13 Bath flats

Aspen has completed a £3m bridge-to-let for the purchase and renovation of a block...

Quarterly SDLT transactions up 15%

Total Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) transactions between July and September this year were...

OneFamily appoints non-executive director

OneFamily Group has announced that Peter O’Donnell is to join its board as a...

Budget reaction: Stamp Duty changes

Nick Lyons, chief executive of inventory specialists, NoLetting Go, said: “The Chancellor put economic...

Autumn Budget: HM Treasury report

Executive summary This is a Budget to fix the foundations of the economy and deliver...

Sizeable rise in new lifetime mortgage customers’ average property value

There have been annual and quarterly increases in the average property value among new...

HTB introduces heavy refurb product to bridging offering

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has added a new heavy refurbishment product to its bridging...

eCapital Commercial Finance acquires Optimum SME Finance

Optimum SME Finance, a specialist invoice financier, has been acquired by eCapital Commercial Finance. Ant...

Marsden BS ups expat residential LTVs

Marsden Building Society has increased the maximum loan to value (LTV) on a selection...

Gateway Surveyors reappointed as Cumberland BS panel manager

Cumberland Building Society has reappointed Gateway Surveyors as its panel manager. This is the latest...

CoPSO and OPDA to cooperate on digitising homebuying process

The Council of Property Search Organisations (CoPSO) and the Open Property Data Association (OPDA)...

Movera supporting staff with professional development

Home-moving group, Movera, has invested in six colleagues towards gaining their professional qualifications, with...

Net mortgage approvals at highest level in two years

The Bank of England has reported that net mortgage approvals for house purchases increased...
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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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Financial services firms sign skills pact ahead of Chancellor’s Mansion House speech

More than 20 financial services organisations have signed a new agreement with government aimed...
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