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Sirius Finance hires pair of senior associates

Sirius Finance has announced the recruitment of two new senior associates. Richard Crook has joined...

UTB restructures bridging sales team

United Trust Bank has restructured its bridging sales team in a move designed to...

Equity Release Council to hold later life summit with AMI

The Equity Release Council is launching the Later Life Lending Summit in collaboration with...

LHV Bank completes key refinancing deals

LHV Bank has facilitated two major refinancing deals introduced by Graham Chaston, managing director...

Cirencester Friendly announces key promotions

Cirencester Friendly has made two new appointments in its underwriting and claims teams. Sue Kissane...

Suffolk BS to pay retention proc fees

Suffolk Building Society is to pay retention proc fees for brokers acting on product...

TFC Homeloans becomes All Money Matters

TFC Homeloans has announced that it has rebranded to become All Money Matters. The...

Perenna cuts purchase, remortgage and RIO rates

Perenna has reduced rates across its purchase, remortgage and retirement interest-only (RIO) products. RIO...

Millennials’ life events impacting on future retirement plans

59% of millennials are struggling to save for retirement but hope to save more...

Virgin Money re-enters home insurance market with Uinsure

Virgin Money is launching new home and landlord insurance products in partnership with Uinsure. The...

United Trust Bank appoints COO

United Trust Bank has appointed Michael Rennie as chief operating officer (COO) to succeed...

Fastest annual house price growth in two years, reports Nationwide

Nationwide has reported that UK house prices increased by 0.7% in September, after taking...

Suffolk BS improves FTB affordability with rate cuts

Suffolk Building Society is reducing the rates on its 95% LTV residential mortgages by...

Advise Wise unveils new cost calculator tool

Advise Wise has announced the launch of its Cost Calculator tool. It allows advisers to...

COMMENT

Taking the anxiety out of finance

It’s an anxious time for mortgage borrowers. A recent study by Handelsbanken Wealth found that the proportion of UK adults apprehensive about making mortgage...

Cashback should put conveyancing into the advice conversation

One of the more interesting findings from our latest quarterly statistics was the position of Nationwide Building Society, which accounted for 25% of all...

Why ownership structure matters in buy-to-let

It's a scenario brokers encounter every day. Two landlord clients approach them about the same type of buy-to-let property, with similar levels of equity...

You own the shares, but are you really just the custodian?

I've built three businesses and I've said the same thing most entrepreneurs have probably said to their mates and family at some point: "Give...

The FCA protection market study shouldn’t ignore redundancy

Considering a third of employers are likely to implement staff redundancies by January 2027, according to Acas, redundancy cover shouldn’t be ignored in wider...

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Rental market divides as London supply squeeze drives up rents

Average advertised rents outside London have exceeded £1,400 a month for the first time,...

More homes within reach but 5% mortgage rates hold buyers back

More than half of two and three-bedroom houses are now within reach of households...

Lenders Live: Flexible lending, fees and remortgage surge

Building societies should use technology to improve service while retaining the flexibility that helps...

High-value homes and London flats face tougher selling conditions

Properties valued at £2 million or more are taking more than twice as long...

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