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Connect for Intermediaries launches residential permissions

Connect for Intermediaries has expanded its mortgage network proposition to now include residential permissions. The...

Londoners three times more likely to gazump

New research by bridging lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has revealed that property buyers...

New structured credit facility for Together

Specialist lender Together has agreed a new facility of £90 million, targeted at funding...

John Wheeler teams up with Paul Mumford again

John Wheeler has joined Century Capital as its new head of business development at Century Capital. Wheeler has...

ASTL revises Code of Conduct

Members of the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has voted to alter up its Code...

Roma Finance unveils special 0.75% bridging deal

Roma Finance has announced a special time-bound offer on residential investment first charge bridging...

New specialist distributor panel for SimplyBiz Mortgages

After a tender process, SimplyBiz Mortgages (SBM) has unveiled its new specialist and complex lending...

Masthaven cuts bridging rates

Masthaven has reduced the rates it offers on its first charge bridging products to its...

New bridging low rate for Precise

Precise Mortgages has unveiled its lowest-ever bridging rate of 0.54% per month. The product is exclusively...

FCA takes action against lender of last resort

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has taken its first criminal action against an individual...

Largemortgageloans.com increases Guernsey presence

Paul Welch, the founder of Largemortgageloans.com has moved back to Guernsey and increased lending options on the...

Landlords eschew BTLs for HMOs

Bridging lender Roma Finance is seeing buy-to-let landlords convert their properties into Houses in Multiple Occupation...

Marie Grundy becomes bridging lender’s sales director

Marie Grundy has joined West One as sales director. She has over 20 years’ experience in...

Together offers regulated bridging cross-charging

Together has revised its regulated bridging product range with the introduction of cross-charging. The specialist...

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Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

URGENT! AI Is coming for you. Or maybe not…

I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

Navigating HMO and MUFB complexity with confidence

Historically, larger Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and Multi-Unit Freehold Blocks (MUFBs) have often been avoided due to their complex layouts, individual planning requirements,...

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Housing market stalls as demand dips and sales slide

The UK housing market’s fragile recovery faltered in July as higher borrowing costs and...

Premier League stadium area with highest house price premium revealed

Burnley’s Turf Moor has emerged as the Premier League’s most lucrative stadium location in...

Kuflink launches in-house legal department to speed up deals

Bridging lender Kuflink has launched its own in-house legal department, in what it describes...

Children wield growing influence over UK home buying decisions

Children are exerting unprecedented sway over property choices with 74% of families saying their...