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Largemortgageloans.com appoints compliance manager

Largemortgageloans.com (LML) has expanded its London team with the appointment of a new compliance...

Recognise Bank completes £670k loan for residential children’s home

Recognise Bank has agreed a £670,000 commercial mortgage for an experienced care home provider....

LV=’s interim chief exec to stand down

LV= has announced that Mark Hartigan, LV= chief executive, intends to step down as...

Rightmove sees smallest house price increase since January

Rightmove has reported that the average price of property coming to market hits yet...

Landbay and Phoenix Group unveil new funding partnership

Buy-to-let lender, Landbay, and long-term savings and retirement business, Phoenix Group, have formed a...

Just Mortgages unveils Northern support facility

Just Mortgages has announced the creation of a dedicated academy and broker support facility...

Convey Group achieves Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation

The Convey Group has achieved the highest level of cybersecurity accreditation offered by a...

Tory leadership candidates urged to keep housing pledges

Leeds Building Society has stated that candidates in the Conservative Party leadership race must...

Mortgage Magic introduces automated onboarding

Mortgage Magic has unveiled an automated onboarding process, providing smaller broker firms with access...

Ecology BS launches enhanced range of discounts for energy efficient homes

Ecology Building Society has expanded its range of C-Change mortgage discounts including increasing the...

Home moves in England and Wales struggling to complete

Landmark Information Group’s latest market data shows that although the market is stabilising across...

Assetz Capital unveils managing director

Assetz Capital has appointed Andrew Charnley to the newly-created role of managing director. Charnley (pictured)...

Best quarter for second charge lending in 15 years

Loans Warehouse has reported that, according to figures reported directly to it, second charge...

Skipton appoints new national account lead

Jonathan Evans has been promoted to national account lead at Skipton Building Society for...

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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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...

Iress UK lifts underlying earnings as costs fall

Iress UK increased underlying adjusted earnings by 43% in the first half of 2026...

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