Brokers

Asking prices suffer biggest August fall since 2018

The average asking price of a newly listed home fell by 2% in August,...

Instamo launches automated post-submission mortgage tool

Instamo has launched FastAdmin, a post-submission automation service designed to reduce the administrative work...

HMLR and OS data tie-up targets faster property transactions

HM Land Registry (HMLR) and Ordnance Survey (OS) have agreed a three-year collaboration intended...

Fintel to launch adviser succession and acquisition service

Fintel Services is to launch a programme matching potential buyers with advice firms seeking...

Regional divide reshapes landlord investment plans

Landlords are reassessing where they invest as regional differences in yields, arrears and void...

Saffron challenges five complex income myths

Saffron for Intermediaries has urged brokers not to dismiss complex income cases as changing...

Marsden passes £100m Guernsey lending milestone

Marsden Building Society has surpassed £100m in mortgage completions in Guernsey through its partnership...

Gen H AI cuts mortgage offer delays by up to five days

Gen H has introduced an artificial intelligence packaging agent designed to identify document errors...

Ben Thompson to leave Mortgage Advice Bureau at year-end

Mortgage Advice Bureau has announced that Ben Thompson will leave the mortgage intermediary at...

Wealthy Advisers Club sets date for high-performance conference

The Wealthy Advisers Club will hold its next conference at the Kensington Conference &...

House price growth slows to 0.1%: Lloyds

UK house prices remained unchanged in July as higher mortgage rates and global economic...

Managing cashflow and risk in today’s turbulent market

Over the past decade buy-to-let landlords have become accustomed to operating in a market...

SearchFlow completes first Next Gen NLIS integration

SearchFlow has become the first search intermediary to connect to the next-generation National Land...

Wealthy Advisers Club launches podcast for mortgage and protection professionals

The Wealthy Advisers Club has launched a podcast and YouTube series offering practical advice...

COMMENT

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Why you need to know what sits behind the average review score

There’s a funny thing about review scores. The better they are, the less likely we are to question them. If a company is sitting at...

The new Chancellor wants to remove barriers to growth; he should start with housing

There was probably a degree of unintended irony in the Treasury choosing to call the Chancellor, John Healey’s, first major market ‘intervention’ his ‘Growth...

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FCA joins industry partners to tackle protection insurance gap

The Financial Conduct Authority is working with industry, government and consumer groups in an...

Family Building Society appoints Laura Hamp as chief financial officer

Family Building Society has appointed Laura Hamp as chief financial officer and a member...

Buy-to-let market reaches £311.6bn as sector marks 30 years

The UK buy-to-let market has grown to almost two million outstanding mortgages worth £311.6bn,...

Conveyancing Association names Nick Chadbourne as new chair

The Conveyancing Association has appointed former LMS chief executive Nick Chadbourne as its new...

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