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Conveyancing Association operations director to retire

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has announced Lloyd Davies is to retire from his position...

Paymentshield introduces GI Academy to close the “guilty gap”

Paymentshield has launched its GI Academy in order to provide financial advisers with General...

Shawbrook extends Non-Portfolio product to small HMOs

Shawbrook Bank has made changes to its newly launched Non-Portfolio product, making it available to customers with small...

Vida makes limited edition BTL deals more competitive

Vida is making changes to its limited edition buy-to-let products. Changes include reducing three of...

RICS: property sales to stabilise

The September 2021 RICS UK Residential Survey has shown a steadier trend in buyer...

HLPartnership grows external compliance team

HLPartnership has announced the appointment of Norman Jackson to the role of regional compliance...

Detached home rental rises outstrip all others

Rents on detached homes increased twice as fast as the average for all UK...

KSEYE launches new hybrid buy-to-let products

Bridging lender KSEYE has unveiled a new range of hybrid buy-to-let finance products for...

Roma Finance makes multiple promotions and appointments

Roma Finance has expanded its team with two new promotions and multiple new appointments. Jack...

Growth in later life landlord buy-to-let acquisitions

Paragon Bank has revealed that the number of buy-to-let acquisitions made by later life...

Mansfield returns to pre-Covid criteria

The Mansfield Building Society has reverted its criteria to pre-pandemic policy and is now...

Sancus appoints head of sales for the South

Sancus has appointed Jaxon Stevens as head of sales (South). He will be based in...

Rental yields likely to maintain their strength

Fleet Mortgages has published the seventh iteration of its Buy-to-Let Rental Barometer covering Q3...

Hanley Economic BS expands residential mortgage range

Hanley Economic Building Society has launched a two-year 95% LTV fixed rate shared ownership...

COMMENT

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...

Is there such thing as a ‘typical borrower’ anymore?

What is a typical borrower? A few decades ago, it would have been a salaried employee, single source of income and, most likely, a...

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Cambridge BS awards £15,080 grant to support young women

Cambridge Building Society has awarded Turtle Dove Cambridge £15,080 to help young women at...

Auction sales rate falls as buyers become more selective

The proportion of property auction lots sold fell to 64.7% in July as buyers...

Untangled completes Ampla Finance rebrand with new website

Specialist lender Untangled has launched a new website, completing its transition from Ampla Finance. The...

L&G cuts rates for new optional payment lifetime mortgages

L&G has introduced rate reductions of between 0.01% and 1.00% for new customers taking...

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