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Whitehall Capital completes £6.5m bridge for Croydon development

Whitehall Capital Management has completed a £6,500,000 bridging loan on a development project in...

Proplend completes commercial property VAT loan

Proplend has completed the first ever investor funded VAT loan. The £1.8m loan, which closed...

Homemover numbers at highest level since 2007

The first half of the year saw the number of people moving home increase...

Just Mortgages signs up 400th self-employed broker

Just Mortgages has reached a new milestone with the 400th self-employed broker joining its...

Average property value of lifetime mortgage customer up 18.5%

Later life mortgage broker Responsible Life has reported that the average property value of...

Air Group partners with St. James’s Place

Air Group has signed an agreement with wealth management group, St. James’s Place (SJP),...

Busy Christmas for consumer spending on the cards

LendingMetrics' analysis of data has led it to conclude that Christmas spending could be set to...

Kensington completes £452m securitisation

Kensington Mortgages has successfully priced Finsbury Square 2021-2, a £452m of mortgage-backed securities transaction,...

Leeds Building Society now live on Submissions Brain

Decisions in principle (DIPs) from Leeds Building Society can now be requested on Submissions...

Dudley BS increases maximum loan size

Dudley Building Society has increased the maximum loan size on its Large Loan product...

Allica Bank provides commercial mortgage for firm’s growth

CME Limited, a Somerset-based automation and packaging machinery specialists, has secured a "significant" commercial...

Hinckley & Rugby backs local Wombles

A Leicestershire litter-picking group has received a £500 donation from Hinckley & Rugby Building...

Accord cuts rates across residential and buy-to-let mortgage ranges

Accord Mortgages is making changes to its mortgage range tomorrow (12 November). The intermediary-only lender...

AMI’s concerns remain despite FSCS levy reduction

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) levy forecast for next year has been reduced...

COMMENT

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...

Managing cashflow and risk in today’s turbulent market

Over the past decade buy-to-let landlords have become accustomed to operating in a market where it can often feel like change is the only...

Latest news

ModaMortgages trims limited-edition five-year fixed rates

ModaMortgages has reduced rates by up to 10 basis points across its limited-edition five-year...

Providence agrees deal to acquire Hometrack

Providence Equity Partners has agreed to acquire Hometrack, the residential property valuation and risk...

The Coventry cuts fixed rates by up to 20bps

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced every fixed-rate mortgage in its range, with lower rates...

Family BS appoints Kirsty Dancer as Midlands BDM

Family Building Society has appointed Kirsty Dancer as business development manager for the East...

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