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VAS Panel appoints valuation audit manager

VAS Panel has appointed Rebecca Mohammed MRICS as valuation audit manager, strengthening its Quality...

Gen H appoints NEDs

Gen H has announced the appointments of Maria Harris and Peter Walker to its...

Suros Capital saves property transaction with artwork

Suros Capital, the luxury asset backed short term lender, has been able to rescue...

Barclays adds new deals and cuts rates

Barclays has launched a range of new mortgage products designed to appeal to first-time...

Hope Capital creates new business support division

Hope Capital has promoted Charlotte Holt to the position of operations and finance manager...

Fleet Mortgages welcomes new BDM for North London

Fleet Mortgages has announced the appointment of a new business development manager (BDM) to...

FOLK2FOLK appoints head of business development

FOLK2FOLK has announced Carlos Howard as its new head of business development. Howard (pictured) has over...

Belmont Green closes third RMBS of 2024

Belmont Green, which trades as Vida Homeloans, has announced its third residential mortgage-backed security...

HTB provides £9.5m towards portfolio restructure

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a £9.5 million loan as part of a...

Peter Curran joins HLP as partnerships director

HLPartnership (HLP) has announced that Peter Curran has joined its board in the newly...

Broker Conveyancing launches fixed-price remortgage product with ONP

Broker Conveyancing has announced the launch of a new fixed-price remortgage product via its...

Buy to Let by Foundation cuts core rates by up to 5bps

Buy to Let by Foundation, the buy-to-let brand of specialist lender, Foundation Home Loans,...

Atom bank adds pair of apprentices to commercial lending team

Atom bank has appointed two new apprentices to work with its commercial lending intermediary...

Black & White Bridging secures £100m funding line

Black & White Bridging has agreed a major new funding line of £100 million. It...

COMMENT

How brokers can secure better client outcomes in a volatile market

Experience has always counted in the mortgage market. Brokers who worked through the financial crisis, the Covid pandemic, the Liz Truss mini-Budget and cost-of-living...

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...

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Bank of Ireland expands JBSP mortgage criteria

Bank of Ireland for Intermediaries has widened its Joint Borrower Sole Proprietor (JBSP) mortgage...

Try Financial links with The Insurance Surgery to support complex protection cases

Try Financial has formed a partnership with specialist protection adviser The Insurance Surgery to...

VouchedFor unveils enhanced membership as advisers adapt to AI-led search

VouchedFor has launched Verified+, a new membership tier aimed at helping financial advisers improve...

TMG boss promises Bank Holiday Monday if England reach World Cup final

TMG mortgage network founder and CEO Scott Thorpe has pledged to give every member...

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