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Aspen Bridging appoints head of sales

Aspen Bridging has appointed Rory Cleary as its new head of sales. Cleary (pictured), who...

United Trust Bank and Iron Bridge Finance back £15m redevelopment

United Trust Bank (UTB) and Iron Bridge Finance are jointly supporting the redevelopment of...

Pepper Money in Open Banking partnership

Pepper Money has partnered with technology platform, Lending Score, to utilise opportunities from Open...

ASTL reports bridging loan book high

Bridging loan books reached a new record high in third quarter of 2023, according...

West One Loans completes its largest ever development finance transaction

West One Loans has completed on a £31.2 million development finance facility, the largest...

Conveyancing Association expresses relief over King’s Speech

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has said it is ‘relieved’ to see a Leasehold and...

Landbay cuts two and five-year fixed rates

Landbay is making rate reductions of up to 0.30 percentage points across its two...

Reliance Bank introduces new key worker offering

Reliance Bank is launching a new Key Worker Mortgage range to both the intermediary...

Hope Capital cuts rates after best ever quarter

Hope Capital has revealed that Q3 was its most successful quarter to date since...

Darrell Walker to run ModaMortgages’ sales and distribution

Darrell Walker has been appointed as head of mortgage sales & distribution at ModaMortgages,...

Source Insurance adds MGA Prestige Underwriting to panel

Source Insurance has welcomed Prestige Underwriting, specialist non-standard MGA, to its home insurance panel...

Saffron for Intermediaries reduces raft of mortgage rates

Saffron for Intermediaries has announced improvements to its product range including its Self-Employed, Contractor,...

JMW Solicitors joins ASTL

JMW Solicitors has become the latest organisation to join the Association of Short Term...

Fleet Mortgages cuts standard and limited company 5-year fixes

Fleet Mortgages has cut rates on all its standard and limited company five-year fixes. The...

COMMENT

Let’s not get bogged down in the macro, let’s focus on the ones and twos

In challenging times such as this, it often feels like the first instinct for many in the mortgage market is to talk it down....

Underwriting: Are we saying “no” to the wrong risks?

Over the last two days I’ve talked about the size of the later life lending market and the knowledge gap that still exists around...

The blind spot: residential advisers and the over-55 customer

Yesterday I talked about the supportive nature of the equity release and later life lending community and the fact that collaboration is one of...

The uncomfortable truth about the later life lending market

The headlines around the latest Equity Release Council figures released this month all suggested growth. But I think we need to have an honest...

Are we actually set up to support first-time buyers?

After a summer spent thinking it over, this time of year is often the point where first time buyers decide whether they're going to...

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Foundation raises income multiples for higher-earning mortgage borrowers

Foundation Home Loans has increased the amount higher-earning residential borrowers can access under changes...

Wealthy Advisers Club funds £997 wellbeing retreat place to MIMHC

The Wealthy Advisers Club has donated a fully funded place at its inaugural Digital...

Access FS mortgage business rises 46.8% in record July

Access Financial Services recorded its strongest month for mortgage business in July, with activity...

LiveMore launches mortgage podcast for brokers and advisers

LiveMore has launched a podcast series covering developments in the specialist and later-life lending...

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