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New chairman of the Family Building Society

Simon Wainwright has been elected chairman of the board of the Family Building Society. Wainwright...

Allica Bank completes asset finance lending milestone

Allica Bank has now lent over £500 million in asset finance. Having launched its asset...

Saxon Trust completes £2.5m development loan

Saxon Trust has recently completed a £2.52 million ground up development loan secured on...

UTB launches block discounting service

United Trust Bank (UTB) has announced the launch of its block discounting service which...

Keystone Property Finance unveils further advances for product transfers

Keystone Property Finance is now allowing landlords to apply for a further advance alongside...

LendInvest Mortgages cuts rates by up to 25bps

LendInvest Mortgages has cut rates across its residential mortgage offering. The range has rates...

Hanley Economic BS adds fee-free residential and RIO offerings

Hanley Economic Building Society has introduced a fee-free two-year tracker and fee-free two-year fixed...

Paul Brett to relaunch Brightstar’s Private Label proposition

Paul Brett is working with the Brightstar Group to relaunch its Private Label lending...

OSB Group inks new four-year deal with finova

Finova, the cloud-based mortgage and savings software provider, has announced that specialist lender OSB...

Nomo Bank products now on Xplan Mortgage and Trigold

Iress has announced that mortgage products from Nomo Bank are now live on Iress’s...

Paragon expands Green Homes Initiative fund to £300m

Paragon Bank’s development finance division has expanded its Green Homes Initiative by an extra...

MorganAsh partners with FWD Research to support firms with vulnerability requirements

MorganAsh has teamed up with FWD Research to further assist firms in meeting the...

Aspen completes £4.65m bridge for foreign national

Aspen Bridging has completed a £4,650,000 residential purchase bridge for a foreign national on...

HTB appoints London BDM

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has bolstered its business development manager (BDM) team with the...

COMMENT

Advisers should be brave enough to drown out the noise

If you thought the economic and mortgage market commentary had been particularly noisy recently, I suspect you haven't heard anything yet, because with the...

Expat buy-to-let: a smaller world, a bigger picture

There has been no shortage of gloomy commentary about buy-to-let of late, so you might wonder why anyone living overseas would want to invest...

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...

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‘The Godfather’ joins Mortgage’s Got Talent judging panel

John ‘The Godfather’ Malone has been recruited as a judge for Mortgage’s Got Talent,...

Royal London introduces AI menopause support tool for staff

Royal London has launched an AI-powered tool designed to help employees and managers access...

Your First Home delays could stall first-time buyer market

Delays in launching the government's Your First Home scheme could cause first-time buyers to...

Foundation recruits former Metro Bank BDM to cover eastern region

Foundation has appointed Foz Ahmad as regional account manager for the East, bringing 12...

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