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Record month for TAB

Bridging lender TAB completed £34m of loans in August, up from £30m in June...

Annual house price growth back in double digits

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported that UK average house prices increased...

SortRefer unveils new website

SortRefer’s new website, an online portal for mortgage intermediaries, is now live. The conveyancing firm...

CrowdProperty appoints associate

CrowdProperty has announced the appointment of Martin Bray as an associate, heading up its...

Buy-to-let losing its appeal, say retail investors

The majority of retail investors in the UK believe buy-to-let investments have become far less...

United Trust Bank appoints director of bridging

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed Sundeep Patel to the role of director of...

Fleet unveils new 65% LTV and green mortgage deals

Fleet Mortgages has launched new buy-to-let Green Mortgages and reintroduced 65% LTV products across...

Employer health and wellbeing support ‘missing the mark’

Research carried out by Towergate Health & Protection among 500 HR decision makers shows...

Zephyr Homeloans funds 58-property BTL refinance

Zephyr Homeloans has funded a £13m portfolio landlord refinance, which is one of the...

Landbay appoints new regional account manager

Landbay has appointed Paula Dowson to the role of regional account manager for the...

Clydesdale Bank withdraws selected five-year fixes

Clydesdale Bank is withdrawing three five-year mortgage products. The deals are being withdrawn at 8pm...

Coventry for intermediaries unveils 3-year deals

Coventry for intermediaries has launched a range of three-year fixed rates. The changes follow feedback...

Paul Welch joins BoE Decision Maker Panel

Paul Welch, CEO and founder of specialist broker, largemortgageloans.com (LML), has been invited to...

CMME integrates APPLY into CRM

Mortgage and protection adviser CMME has announced the integration of Twenty7tec's APPLY, enabling users...

COMMENT

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’...

AI doesn’t remove bias. It gives us the chance to manage it

One of the great promises of artificial intelligence has always been objectivity. Machines, unlike people, do not have bad days. They do not favour...

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Half of homes taking longer to sell as regional divide widens

Homes in almost half of Great Britain’s local authority areas are taking longer to...

The uncomfortable truth about the later life lending market

The headlines around the latest Equity Release Council figures released this month all suggested...

Revived Help to Buy would inflate prices: Lamdin

Restoring Help to Buy would strengthen developers’ sales without solving the underlying affordability crisis...

One in three workers financially fragile despite being employed

More than a third of UK employees remain financially fragile despite being in work,...

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