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Vida unveils new limited edition products

Vida has launched a new range of limited edition deals. Two and five-year products are...

SPF Private Clients opens Edinburgh office

SPF Private Clients (SPF) has opened a new office in Edinburgh, marking the return...

Gen H reduces rates across all products

Gen H has announced reductions across its whole product range by up to 17bps...

Premium Credit offers brokers monthly plan for FCA fees

Premium Credit is offering mortgage businesses a finance facility to spread their fees over...

Paragon Bank cuts rates following buy-to-let refresh

Paragon Bank has reduced rates across 22 buy-to-let mortgage products, with fixed deals now...

Rise in aspirational use of lifetime mortgages

Over the first half of 2023, lifetime mortgage customers have become more open to...

Property developers utilising AI to improve operations

An increasing number of developers are turning to new technologies – including artificial intelligence...

Most popular types of specialist property investment revealed

Castle Trust Bank has established that refurbishments, HMOs and MUFBs have been the most...

Financial costs of childhood cancer calculated

New research sponsored by Guardian and conducted by cancer charity, Young Lives vs Cancer,...

Just Wealth unveils new referral portal

Just Wealth, the financial services arm of national brokerage Just Mortgages, has launched a...

Leeds BS launches energy performance improvement tool

Leeds Building Society has launched a new online tool designed to help members monitor...

Consultancy becomes the latest IMLA associate member

Pegasus Insight, a recently established professional research services consultancy, has become the latest associate...

Conveyancing Association reveals new affiliate member

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has announced Post Partner, legal sector specialists in Document Allocation...

Legal & General Group Protection updates critical illness definitions

Legal & General Group Protection has updated its Group critical illness cover (CIC) definitions...

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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LendInvest recruits Matt Taylor to lead mortgage sales

LendInvest Mortgages has appointed Matt Taylor as sales director, with responsibility for its intermediary...

Income limits could exclude many London buyers from proposed deposit scheme

More than 22% of first-time buyer mortgage applicants in London and Greater London could...

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...

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