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New BDM for the Saffron

Saffron Building Society has announced the appointment of Lee Williams as its latest hire...

LendInvest partners with Smoove

LendInvest has announced a new buy-to-let legal panel in partnership with conveyancing panel manager...

Generation Home becomes IMLA member

Generation Home has become the latest member to join the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association...

Working families’ resilience falls to just 19 days

On average, working households are only 19 days from the breadline, according to a...

Q2 recovery for bridging market

Bridging applications, completions and loan books all recovered in the second quarter of 2022,...

United Trust Bank holds first ‘Exchange’ Broker Forum

United Trust Bank (UTB) held its first ‘Exchange’ Broker Forum (Exchange) last month to...

Fleet Mortgages expands two regional centres

Fleet Mortgages has announced the expansion of its offices in two locations across the...

eConveyancer launches partnership with New Leaf

eConveyancer has embarked upon a panel management partnership with New Leaf Distribution. New Leaf is...

Key and MorganAsh to collaborate over vulnerability

Later life lending firm Key has agreed to work collaboratively with MorganAsh on a...

Coventry for intermediaries offers soft footprint credit checks for AIPs

Coventry for intermediaries has launched soft footprint credit checks for Agreements In Principle, which...

SoMo launches August Bank Holiday sale

Specialist lending firm, SoMo Bridging, is offering a reduced lock-in fee from £350 to...

Smoove-LBG conveyancing deal extended by two years

Smoove plc has re-contracted with the Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) for the provision of...

Impact Specialist Finance launches BTL range via MT Finance

Impact Specialist Finance has launched a new buy-to-let mortgage range via MT Finance. This range...

Coventry for intermediaries expands new business range

Coventry for intermediaries has bolstered its new business range with the launch of first...

COMMENT

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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