Year: 2019
Here is a summary of our opening hours over the festive period for our branches… Christmas Eve – our six branches and our Head Office will close at 1pm Christmas Day and Boxing Day – our six branches and our Head Office will be closed Friday 27th December – our Head Office will be open […]
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by Martin Langlands, Chief Risk Officer, Harpenden Building Society In July 2018, The Bank of England, The PRA and The FCA issued a joint discussion paper called ‘Building the UK financial sector’s operational resilience’. The paper also goes by the name of DP 01/18. You may have seen some commentary in the trade press but […]
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Harpenden Building Society won the Best Local Building Society award for an unprecedented 5th, consecutive year at the What Mortgage Awards. Today we meet Harpenden’s CEO Sarah Howe who tells us more about this specialist lender which packs a punch when it comes to mortgage lending. Q: How did it feel to be voted Best […]
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Impact Specialist Finance and the Harpenden Building Society have completed a £1 million interest only residential deal on a new build flat for a client in their 50s. The transaction was for a very upscale 19th floor new build property situated on the South Bank of the Thames in London. It had a valuation of […]
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by Harpenden Building Society The demand for holidays and time to rest can be affected by the economy but there will always be people trying to seek a break from it all. Holiday Lets are becoming an increasingly attractive investment proposition for many across the UK and it’s not just down to political and economic […]
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Staff from Harpenden Building Society are ‘going back to school’ to help deliver a ‘Money Manager’ financial education scheme to local children. So far nearly 1200 youngsters aged between 4 and 11 years (key stage 1 & 2) have enrolled on the scheme with the Society encouraging more local schools to sign up to the […]
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OUR CUSTOMER: Jamil Qureshi is one of the world’s leading performance psychologists, and an expert in high performance. Jamil has helped six people get to Number One in the world of sport and delivered leadership programmes at board level for organisations all around the globe. He has worked with footballers from Manchester United, Manchester City, […]
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by Martin Langlands, Chief Risk Officer, Harpenden Building Society What does the future of mortgage provision look like in the UK? Now that’s an interesting question, given the ever-so-slightly turbulent times we are living through. All eyes are on the days leading up to the EU summit in the middle of October, and the weeks […]
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by Ken Hale, Head of Lending, Harpenden Building Society Brexit, intercontinental trade wars, quantitative easing, house price escalation. Back in 2000, when people were getting anxious about the Millennium Bug, very few would have believed that we would be grappling with the big political and economic questions that we are experiencing right now. In addition […]
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Over the past few months we have noticed increased interest from investors looking to holiday lets to provide a source of additional income. Holiday lets have always been a niche area of the mortgage market but one that we believe will grow significantly. We have been an active lender in this space for many years and […]
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