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Mortgage Brain relaunches lender service report

Mortgage Brain has relaunched its Lender Service Report, enabling mortgage advisers a single view...

SBG in new partnership with Eligible.ai

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) is partnering with Eligible.ai to give PMS Mortgage Club and...

Evolution Money pilots four-day working week

Evolution Money is taking part in the government-sponsored four-day working week trial, with employees...

Deloitte joins Equity Release Council

The Equity Release Council has announced Deloitte as its newest associate member. Deloitte provides...

Shawbrook appoints head of real estate proposition

Shawbrook has revealed the appointment of Daryl Norkett as head of real estate proposition. Norkett...

Virgin Money unveils mortgage rate rises

Virgin Money has made a series of changes to a range of mortgage products. The...

MFS added to MBT Affordability platform

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has added MFS to its MBT Affordability research platform. MBT Affordability...

LiveMore expands BDM team

LiveMore is growing its sales and broker support to meet the demand for interest-only...

Annual Scottish house price growth at highest level for 2022

Walker Fraser Steele has reported that annual Scottish house price growth now stands at...

TMA Club partners with the Swansea BS

TMA Club has announced a new partnership with Swansea Building Society, giving members of...

Standard Life Home Finance hires new BDM

Standard Life Home Finance has expanded its business development team with the appointment of...

Canada Life makes data science appointment

Canada Life UK has hired Cath Goddard as its head of data, insight and...

Bathgate finances £200k deal for Zenn Liverpool

A £200k deal funded by Bathgate Business Finance has secured the launch of a...

Castle Trust completes £5.4m BTL portfolio loan

Castle Trust Bank has completed a portfolio loan secured on 19 buy-to-let properties in...

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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