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LiveMore partners with Positive Lending

LiveMore has expanded its distribution with a new partnership with Positive Lending. Specialising in mortgage...

360 Dotnet sees 22% increase in lending for Q2

360 Dotnet has reported a string second quarter. After £10.7 billion in total lending -...

Equity Release Supermarket appoints national account manager

Craig Kerrigan has joins Equity Release Supermarket as national account manager. Kerrigan (pictured) will be...

Gatehouse Bank doubles profits

Gatehouse Bank has reported a doubling of pre-tax profits to £3.6m in 2021. During the...

Musical accessories firm secures £250k funding

A Scottish designer and manufacturer of musical accessories has agreed a £250,000 funding deal...

Later-life borrowers are getting younger

Hodge has found the average age of its 50+ mortgage customer has dropped by...

Fluent Money to offer MPowered Mortgages’ prime residential range

MPowered Mortgages has partnered with Fluent Money, which was recently acquired by Mortgage Advice...

Twenty7Tec: product availability at three-quarters of pre-pandemic levels

Twenty7Tec has published its findings based on its mortgage platform data for July 2022. Monthly...

Skipton reports 3.3% growth in mortgage portfolio

The Skipton Group has reported pre-tax profits for the past six months of £160.0m,...

Major rise in numbers of children needing mental health services

Royal London has revealed that the number of referrals for children's mental health services,...

OMS and Connect extend technology agreement

One Mortgage System (OMS) has announced that Connect for Intermediaries has renewed its tech...

Skipton appoints telephone BDM

Skipton Building Society for Intermediaries has appointed James Robertshaw to its team of telephone...

Evolution Money completes inaugural securitisation

Second charge lending firm, Evolution Money, has announced the successful completion of the Group’s...

Rising inflation is biggest challenge facing SMEs

High inflation is the number one biggest challenge facing small and medium sized businesses...

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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