Analysis

Mortgage applications rise as lenders drive competition, says Stonebridge

Mortgage applications rose 7% year-on-year in October as borrowers continued to respond to falling...

Why the human relationship still defines real estate lending

AI is now a core driver of transformation in financial services and is reshaping...

Mansion tax plans resurface as Prime London prices slide

Thirteen years since the Liberal Democrats first proposed a Mansion Tax on properties over...

Chris Williams on being the architect of connection

For most of the last decade Chris Williams has been dissecting the machinery of...

TOM BILL: Lower borrowing costs offer Treasury respite

The length of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s observation window – the period when...

How social media has transformed financial services

As SM Advice celebrates its first year it’s hard to ignore just how much...

What the 2025 Party Conferences told us about property

Key housing and property policy developments from all four major UK political party conferences...

Momenti launches new research project into broker decision-making

Momenti Group has unveiled a new research initiative, titled WHY, which aims to shed...

AI could make obsolescence obsolete and slash global e-waste

For decades, technology has been trapped in a cycle of forced obsolescence. Each year,...

Accountants, brokers and the clash of expectations

There’s an old accountant’s joke about financial advisers: the difference between us is that...

Why the mortgage industry must digitise for the customer, not just for compliance

Home buyers today can manage their finances, verify their ID and even order a...

The Rate Stuff: One year of Labour and the mortgage market

In the latest episode of The Rate Stuff, MPowered Mortgages’ flagship YouTube show, host...

Mortgage lending surges in March despite falling approvals

Mortgage borrowing by UK households rose sharply in March, according to the Bank of...

What, me? Standing out in a crowded market

The mortgage market is changing. It’s more competitive, more complex and more client-focused than...
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2026 forecasts: St. James’s Place

Four senior figures at St. James’s Place outline themes, opportunities and concerns for 2026. JUSTIN ONUEKWUSI, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER Artificial intelligence is likely to remain a...

2026 forecasts: Atom bank

Chris Storey, chief commercial officer at Atom bank, provides his thoughts on the residential and commercial mortgage market as we head into the new...

“It’s Christmas time, there’s no need not to check your supplier list…”

With the Christmas holidays upon us, it’s fair to say that business issues might be slipping down the priority list just a little bit,...

FS25/6 and the execution-only irony brokers can’t ignore

Reading FCA FS25/6, it is difficult not to notice an uncomfortable irony in the regulator’s conclusions around execution-only sales. The paper rightly raises concerns about...

Less Autumn Budget and more Autumn Bodgit

After months of fevered speculation before the Budget residential property transactions juddered to a halt. I always suspected that as ‘confidence arrives on foot and...

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Merry Christmas from Opus First Media!

Wishing you a Soup-er Christmas and a prosperous 2026! Between Christmas and the New Year...
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