Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for stimulus, this time: abolish stamp duty.
The logic feels intuitive - reduce a transaction cost and you free up movement, encourage activity, help buyers onto...
LendInvest has expanded its commercial support team with a particular focus on helping brokers across the residential and buy-to-let markets.
The technology-backed specialist lender has...
Proptech firms have tested how property data can be shared across the home-moving process through a series of industry hackathons.
The hackathons were hosted by...
Foundation has refreshed its buy-to-let mortgage range with new products and rate reductions across a number of existing options.
The intermediary-only specialist lender has introduced...
MorganAsh has backed a new Carers UK blueprint aimed at building more carer-friendly communities, but said financial services firms must do more to identify...
Family Building Society has appointed Sam Byrne as business development manager for the northern and western Home Counties.
Byrne (pictured) joins the mutual from Mortgage Advice Bureau, where she was regional manager for London and the South East. She...
Buckinghamshire Building Society has reduced selected rates across its Credit Revive and Credit Restore mortgage ranges by up to 30bps.
The changes apply to five products and are aimed at brokers working with clients who have experienced previous credit...
Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has launched an AI-powered tool designed to help advisers deal more efficiently with ceding scheme providers.
The mortgage, protection and financial planning network said the new tool, ProCeding, had been developed in-house to reduce the...
The Conveyancing Association has launched a summer webinar series for conveyancing firms, delivered with its affiliate members.
The series will run throughout June, July and August and is intended to provide conveyancing professionals with practical guidance on issues affecting...
Last year mortgage technology specialist Fignum appointed Steve Carruthers as growth director, signalling its intent to scale its operations and deepen its role as...
Considering how politically important first-time buyers have been to recent governments, and the taxpayers’ money that has been thrown at a large number of...
Following the latest US tariff announcement, lenders are continuing to price and operate on the basis that market conditions remain relatively stable. However, the...
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,...
A cross-party group of MPs has called for a major review of stamp duty as part of a wider package of measures designed to improve home ownership affordability and help more first-time buyers onto the property ladder.
In a new report published by the Housing,...
The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter's (MIMHC) third annual 144-mile Walk & Talk challenge finally came to an end on Friday 15th May as leaders Jason Berry and Charlie Morley crossed the finish line at HSBC's Birmingham head office at 15:45.
Some 64 participants from...
Equity Release Group has launched a specialist adviser network aimed at helping firms expand their later life lending propositions as regulatory pressures and market complexity continue to increase.
TERN – The Equity Release Network – has been developed over the past three years and is...
