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Aspen saves auction deposit with road trip

Aspen Bridging made to a 175-mile in-person round trip to collect legal documents to...

eConveyancer partners with Connect

eConveyancer has launched a panel management partnership with Connect IFA and Connect for Intermediaries. Connect...

MFS secures £125m in increased funding

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has secured £125 million of funding from an investment bank...

Rightmove reports ‘traditional’ August fall in house prices

Rightmove has reported that the average price of property coming to market fell by...

Recognise Bank funds £2.6m buy-to-let deal

Recognise Bank has agreed a £2.6 million refinance package for Caldew Court, a 35-unit...

Holiday let mortgage enquiries still strong

The holiday let mortgage market is still extremely popular with investors despite the easing...

Just Group to use Comentis’ vulnerability software

Retirement specialist Just Group has become the first provider in the retirement income sector...

LiveMore restructures sales management

LiveMore has appointed a new head of intermediary sales as part of a restructuring....

Black Book Finance arranges £13.5m deal with TAB

Black Book Finance has closed a £13.5m loan facility with bridging lender TAB for...

New NEDs for Shepherds Friendly

Shepherds Friendly has added two new non-executive directors to its board. Alison McKinna and...

HMOs moving up the value chain

Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) are moving up the value chain as tenants demand...

Impact Lending secures £75m facility

Impact Lending has secured a debt facility of up to £75m from Foresight Group,...

Paradigm partners with Twenty7tec

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced a new partnership with sourcing and technology platform provider,...

Clearing existing mortgage most popular H1 reason for equity release

Canada Life has stated that 50% of equity release applications it received in the...

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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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