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Castle Trust Bank launches heavy refurbishment bridge with drawdowns

Castle Trust Bank has launched a new heavy refurbishment bridging product, featuring a drawdown...

Clever Lending completes second charge bridge in three days

Clever Lending, the specialist finance packager and master broker, has completed a £24,000 second...

Roma Finance bolsters underwriting team

Roma Finance has expanded its underwriting team following continuing demand for its bridging and...

Towergate Health & Protection appoints head of consulting

Towergate Health & Protection has announced the appointment of Richard Jackson as head of...

L&G rolls out free Care Concierge service to retail customers

Legal & General Retail has announced its Care Concierge service will be available to...

Aspen completes three 80% LTV cases in a week

Short-term lender Aspen has completed three 80% LTV deals in seven days for a...

OSB Group duo raise £6,000 for hospice

Jon Hall, group managing director, mortgages and savings at OSB Group, together with Christina...

Vida appoints national account manager

Vida has recruited Oliver Smith into the role of national account manager. Smith (pictured) has...

Nottingham BS unveils raft of mortgage offering improvements

Nottingham Building Society is launching a range of new mortgage products and enhancements. These include...

Vast majority of landlords won’t buy a property below EPC C

71% of landlords say they are unlikely to buy a property which has an...

Advise Wise introduces Fact Find and Suitability Letter System

Following the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) comprehensive review of the equity release marketplace, Advise...

MFS appoints General Counsel

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has appointed Ryan Magee as its new General Counsel. ...

Three-quarters of 50-80-year-olds worried about cost-of-living

78% of homeowners aged between 50 and 80 are feeling the effects of the...

Landbay reduces Limited Edition five-year rates

Landbay has reduced the rates across its Limited Edition standard five-year fixed rate product...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let and the next generation of landlords

There has been plenty of discussion recently about the future of buy-to-let, whether landlords can continue to make their investments work, and what the...

Growth can hide a lot – until it stops

Since getting involved with Rotherham United Women I've realised football and business have quite a lot in common. One thing in particular: growth can hide...

Nobody wants your ‘market update’

You sent the same email on Monday that everyone else sent. Moneyfacts had just put the average five-year fix at 6%, the first time in...

The industry needs to support Shared Ownership

This week, I want to put the spotlight on Shared Ownership. It deserves to be treated as a genuinely viable route onto the ladder,...

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...

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Sirius Finance formalises wealth management referral arrangement

Sirius Finance has entered into a referral partnership with JRM Wealth Management, enabling its...

Paragon appoints Fulford to lead specialist buy-to-let lending

Paragon Bank has promoted Matt Fulford to head of specialist lending in its mortgages...

Council tax reform tops homeowners’ Budget priorities

More than a third of homeowners and prospective buyers want the government to review...

My Legal Club adds three firms to conveyancing panel

My Legal Club has appointed three law firms to its conveyancing panel as it...

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