‘I’m in my peak earning years’: I’m working beyond 70. Will that help increase my Social Security?

Marsden Building Society has simplified its expat mortgage criteria. The society has removed its minimum income requirement and reduced documentation requirements for employed and self-employed applicants. For example, self-employed applicants now only require one year of accounts, or two years if top slicing. Employed applicants just require their most recent payslip. The Marsden has also…

If at first Prologis doesn’t succeed, it tries, tries, tries … and tries one last time.  Prologis’ San Francisco headquarters on the Pier The San Francisco-based industrial giant made what it described as a firm final preliminary offer to buy U.K.-based industrial developer Segro for more than $18.7B (£14B) on Wednesday, a $500M increase from…

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Secure Trust Bank originated around £40bn in bridging loans in the six months to June, a few months after launching the product. This product expansion into bridging resulted in a 4.9% growth in its loan book to £3.5bn, as well as its home improvement proposition.  Secure Trust Bank also launched a bridging portal, which…

“They had been married for over 30 years when she passed.”

A new conveyancing platform has launched in the UK, offering real-time visibility of property chains to all parties involved in transactions, including buyers, sellers, estate agents, mortgage brokers and solicitors. CentreMove, developed by East Yorkshire-based conveyancing solicitors Jen and Gordon Sewell alongside entrepreneur Gordon Quinn, allows buyers and sellers to conduct searches themselves and access…