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Virgin Money ups select Core residential and buy-to-let rates

Virgin Money is making a series of changes to selected mortgage products. The changes will...

Paymentshield to hold general insurance roadshows

General insurance (GI) provider Paymentshield is hosting a series of five regional events across...

Assetz Capital provides commercial mortgage in Swansea

Specialist marketplace lender Assetz Capital has completed another project in South Wales, an area...

Chine Financial completes tricky case for Comfortable Consolidator

Chine Financial has completed a hard to place case for a Comfortable Consolidator with...

Greenfield Mortgages makes senior hire

Greenfield Mortgages has recruited Richard Keen to lead its corporate and national key account...

Alternative Bridging secures additional funding line

Alternative Bridging Corporation has secured a new dedicated residential development funding line from its...

E.surv: annual price growth up to 12.2%

E.surv has reported that annual price growth increases to 12.2% in England & Wales. It...

Top environmental QC publishes climate change advice

Environmental analytics business Groundsure has announced the latest legal climate risk advice it has...

Landbay simplifies term tracker range and lowers rates

Landbay has revamped its term tracker range of buy-to-let mortgages with rate reductions and...

Sancus completes £13.9m development loan

Sancus has recently completed a £13.9m loan to support a housing development in Wisbech,...

Hinckley & Rugby BS undertakes first digitised remortgage transaction

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has conducted PEXA’s first UK transaction, introducing its digital...

LMS launches technology to simplify remortgage journey

LMS has launched LMS DART – its Decisioning and Automated Remortgage Technology – designed...

Norton Home Loans partners with Connect for Intermediaries

Norton Home Loans has partnered with Connect for Intermediaries, providing members of the network...

Recognise Bank recruits bridging specialist

SME lender Recognise Bank has appointed Andrew Keehner as its latest relationship manager, with...

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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...

Commonhold reform: Devil in the detail

The government's language on leasehold reform remains forthright. Ministers speak of, “bringing the feudal leasehold system to an end,” of returning power to homeowners...

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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,...

Nationwide cuts fixed mortgage rates by up to 0.15%

Nationwide Building Society is reducing selected fixed mortgage rates by up to 0.15 percentage...

L&G appoints Kerrigan to drive Ignite broker rollout

Legal & General has appointed Craig Kerrigan as broker relationship manager for its Ignite...

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