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PensionBee partners with LifeSearch

LifeSearch has announced its technology and advice partnership with online pension provider, PensionBee, to...

Surveying training academies urged to join charity challenge

Surveying companies across the UK are being urged to join a new charity challenge...

Connect appoints new relationship manager

Connect for Intermediaries has announced the appointment of Tom White as its new relationship...

CapitalRise structures £5m loan for Wentworth Estate development

Prime property specialist finance company CapitalRise has announced the funding of a £5m loan...

Bibby Asset Finance hires senior BDM

Bibby Asset Finance, the asset finance division of Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has announced...

Gen H launches new affordability calculator and criteria centre

Gen H has announced the launch of its new affordability calculator. The calculator includes...

Homeowners could access 5 years’ worth of retirement income from property wealth

Homeowners in England and Wales could access the equivalent of five years’ worth of...

CLSQ launches real-time EPC integration for lenders

CLSQ’s latest product launch is offering real-time access to EPC data directly from the...

Colenko joins ASTL

Colenko has become the latest lender member to join the Association of Short-Term Lenders...

Tandem Bank ups support for self-employed

Tandem Bank has announced its move to increase the LTV for self-employed clients from...

SortRefer holds Reading regional event for intermediaries

SortRefer has held a Conveyancing and Lending morning event in Reading. The firm's South East...

Belmont Green prices second securitisation of 2023

Belmont Green, trading as Vida Homeloans, has issued its second residential mortgage-backed security (RMBS)...

MPowered Mortgages starts testing ChatGPT tool

MPowered Mortgages has integrated ChatGPT technology into its internal chatbot tool on its mortgage...

Air Academy launches vulnerability module

Air, the platform for later life lending professionals, has worked with Comentis to launch...

COMMENT

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...

Leasehold reform has a September window – will Burnham use it?

At the time of writing, the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill still has no published First Reading date.  But is it imminent? Andy Burnham entered...

Advisers need an answer for evolving landlords

It’s a tough time to be a landlord. The succession of changes to tax and regulation made in recent years - with the Renters’...

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Landlords reporting rent arrears falls to record low

The proportion of landlords reporting rent arrears has fallen to its lowest level on...

Prestige Underwriting joins Source landlord insurance panel

Prestige Underwriting has joined Source Insurance’s landlord panel as the first underwriter of its...

Fleet Mortgages brings back fee options for HMO and MUFB loans

Fleet Mortgages has reintroduced two five-year fixed-rate products for houses in multiple occupation and...

Hanley Economic moves into holiday let lending

Hanley Economic Building Society has entered the holiday let mortgage market with two variable...

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