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West One reveals Vegas competition winners

West One Loans has announced the winners of its competition for 10 brokers to...

Dragonfly to offer regulated loans

Dragonfly Property Finance has received FSA approval and will accept regulated business from 1...

Tiuta unveils new bridging products

Tiuta PLC has announced the launch of a new product range after it secured...

First Complete and Intrinsic ‘prefer’ Precise Mortgages

Two more networks have made Precise Mortgages their 'preferred' bridging lender. This brings the total...

Blemain Group to relocate

Blemain Group is to move offices to ‘Lake View’ Cheadle Royal Business Park on...

Two key hires for Alternative Bridging Corporation

Alternative Bridging Corporation (ABC) has appointed two new members of staff. Mike Jones has been...

Connect Group targets new areas with appointments

The Connect Group has launched a new buy-to-let and bridging service aimed exclusively at...

Precise Mortgages added to TMP panel

Precise Mortgages has joined The Mortgage Partnership’s lender panel. It is now offering access...

Precise claims its borrower saved £103k

Precise Mortgage has completed on a bridging loan for £5.9 million and subsequently claims...

New funding lines for Tiuta

Bridging lender Tiuta says it has secured several new funding lines. It says this...

Brightstar partners with Positive Solutions

Positive Solutions has appointed Brightstar Financial as partner of choice for its IFA Partners. ...

Bridging market worth over £1bn

The value of the bridging loan industry has broken the £1 billion barrier for...

Brokers still missing out on alternative revenue streams

Y3S has expressed concern that many mortgage brokers are missing out on lucrative earning...

Precise and NACFB partner over transparency

Precise Mortgages has partnered with the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) in...

COMMENT

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

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Halifax retains top spot in broker satisfaction survey

Halifax has once again been named the best overall lender for broker experience in...

Nationwide cuts switcher mortgage rates for existing borrowers

Nationwide is reducing rates across its switcher mortgage range for existing customers by up...

Hinckley & Rugby adds visa mortgage products to offering

Hinckley & Rugby for intermediaries has launched four two-year discount visa mortgage products across...

NatWest strengthens broker support with intermediary team expansion

NatWest has expanded its intermediary leadership team with the creation of two new corporate...

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