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Roma Finance unveils appointments and promotions

Roma Finance has announced eight new appointments and three promotions. Alan Collins and Saffron...

Equity release gifting could save 14 years off FTB mortgage term

Equity release gifting could help younger generations pay off their mortgages five years sooner...

eConveyancer partners with Wesleyan Financial Services

eConveyancer has launched a new panel management partnership with Wesleyan Financial Services. The agreement gives...

FCA to introduce new overarching principle and rules for firms to follow

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) plans to bring in a new Consumer Duty, which...

Central Trust unveils Family Let and Let to Buy ranges

Central Trust, the first and second charge mortgage lender, has launched a Family Let...

Norton Broker Services adds TAB to panel

Norton Broker Services has added bridging lender TAB to its panel of lenders. The...

J3 places insurance on £24m AMA Homes resi project

J3 Advisory has been instructed by AMA homes to place structural warranty insurance on...

360 Dotnet hires head of intermediary sales

360 Dotnet has announced the appointment of Stephen Cowdell as its head of intermediary...

Avantia appoints chief financial officer

Avantia, the 'virtual' insurer behind the Homeprotect brand, has expanded its team with the...

Bluestone Group to adopt LMS Secure Link

LMS has announced that Bluestone Group is launching with LMS Secure Link. LMS Secure...

OSB Group improves High Net Worth offering

OSB Group has announced changes to support brokers with large-scale bridging finance deals. The...

Investec makes £13.5 million Clapham South development loan

Investec Real Estate has provided Landhold Developments with a £13.5 million senior facility, to...

Kuflink makes head of products appointment

Kuflink, the national bridging and development finance lender, has appointed Paul Auger as head...

Brilliant Solutions becomes new Zephyr Homeloans packager partner

Zephyr Homeloans has appointed Brilliant Solutions, the buy-to-let mortgage club for brokers, as a...

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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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