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New BDM for Signature Private Finance

Signature Private Finance has appointed Gary Playle as its new business development manager to...

Y3S takes 50% stake in Pink Pig Loans

Y3S Group has acquired a 50% shareholding in Pink Pig Loans (PPL), a brokerage...

Bridging Finance Solutions appoints regional business manager

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has announced the appointment of Richard Gray as regional business manager. Gray...

Record month for West One Loans

West One Loans has reported a record month in November with £54 million lent across residential...

Lender and distributor partner to save ‘dream home’ deal

Working in partnership to save customers from losing their dream home, Together and Specialist...

Goldentree: what north-south divide?

A bridging and development finance lender has revealed the geographical makeup of its lending. Goldentree...

Precise customer details at risk following burglary

A burglary last month at Precise Mortgages' site in Wolverhampton saw computer equipment stolen...

New national BDM for Positive Commercial Finance

Positive Commercial Finance has recruited Gary Ellis as business development manager. Ellis (pictured) has worked in...

CSF and Together save £12m development

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) secured a £3.6m bridge with Together in 10 working days to save a multi-property...

LendInvest reduces minimum bridging loan size

LendInvest has cut the minimum loan size applicable across its range of bridging finance products. The lender will...

Kuflink opens new principal office

Bridging lender Kuflink Bridging has had its new head office in Gravesend officially opened by Treasury...

Masthaven open for business as challenger bank

New challenger bank Masthaven has launched today with savings and lending products. The new player says it is the...

LendInvest appoints northern BDM

LendInvest has appointed its first business development manager (BDM) for northern England. Damien Druce (pictured), a BDM...

Preparing for a healthy New Year pipeline

At the moment, and quite understandably, everyone is focused on the Autumn Statement. Given...

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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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Bellway renews call for Help to Buy as housing recovery stalls

Housebuilder Bellway says the UK housing market recovery has “stalled” over summer, renewing its...

34 organisations back plan to accelerate green mortgage lending

Decarbonising Britain’s homes is one of the most complex and expensive challenges of the...

The West Brom raises income multiples to help buyers with smaller deposits

West Brom Building Society has eased its mortgage lending rules in a bid to...

Brokers warn of rising underinsurance as premiums outpace protection

A growing number of brokers fear that more households are falling into underinsurance as...