At 19, Terry Blackburn was knocking on doors trying to sell life insurance to strangers. He’d previously worked as a builder and candidly admits he just couldn’t build. He had no qualifications to speak of and no background...
Mortgage advisers ended 2025 increasingly confident in their own businesses even as sentiment towards the wider mortgage market softened, latest data from Intermediary Mortgage...
Conveyancing volumes rose at the end of 2025 easing fears of another market dip but increasing pressure on legal firms handling mortgage completions.
Research from...
The Conveyancing Association has criticised HMRC’s proposed changes to Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) rules warning that requiring conveyancing firms to register as ‘tax...
Afin Bank has added to its salesforce with the appointment of Stuart Benge as senior business development manager, bringing more than 30 years’ experience in residential and commercial finance to the role.
Benge (pictured) spent 20 years at Norwich...
Finova has supported the launch of Offa’s new Sharia-compliant Home Purchase Plan, extending the lender’s technology partnership beyond buy-to-let into the residential market.
The cloud-based savings and originations technology provider has powered the introduction of Offa’s residential Home Purchase...
Mortgage borrowing slowed at the start of the year with approvals for house purchases falling back and net lending dipping below its recent trend.
Figures published by the Bank of England show net borrowing of mortgage debt fell to...
National Friendly has promoted its technical lead underwriter John Fotheringham to head of underwriting, as the mutual prepares to expand into new underwritten markets this year.
The appointment follows six years at the Society for Fotheringham, during which time...
Conditional selling remains one of the most persistent and contentious issues facing the UK housing and mortgage markets with brokers continuing to report pressure...
The latest figures from the Home Builders Federation make somewhat uncomfortable reading, particularly if you’re a Government which has placed a significant ‘bet’ on...
Later life lending has moved well beyond being an occasional enquiry about equity release or a maturing interest-only case.
It is now a consistent and...
Saffron for Intermediaries has expanded first-time buyer eligibility across its owner occupied range and introduced a new five-year fixed-rate product within its lending into retirement proposition.
The mutual said the changes are designed to reflect increasingly complex borrowing profiles and to respond to broker feedback...
Conveyancing is stressful – and I'm not just talking about the poor customer experience. From a turnaround time of around eight weeks back in the '70s when I first started in conveyancing it is now longer than it ever has been – typically around...
The Right Mortgage has launched The Right Packager, a new service available to advisory firms within its network to support cases that fall outside mainstream lending criteria.
The proposition is positioned as an additional route to market for advisers handling complex, non-standard or specialist applications,...
