Conveyancing

MAB takes 23% stake in Sort Refer parent

Mortgage Advice Bureau (Holdings) plc has made an equity investment of 23% in Sort...

LMS teams up with network

Conveyancing panel management firm LMS has partnered with The Right Mortgage and Protection Network.   The network launched...

Conveyancing ‘mayhem’ from stamp duty hike likely

Broker Conveyancing has warned that the increases to stamp duty land tax for buy-to-let...

Landbay partners with My Home Move

Peer-to-peer lender Landbay has announced a new partnership with My Home Move. My Home Move...

Tackling fraud in the conveyancing process

Reading recently about the conveyancer who was jailed for swindling his clients and the...

Conveyancer sentenced for stamp duty fraud

A conveyancer who swindled his clients and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) out of...

LMS teams up with the Hinckley & Rugby

Conveyancing panel management firm LMS has partnered with Hinckley & Rugby Building Society.  LMS will...

Majority of estate agents don’t ask about neighbours

New research from Churchill Home Insurance has found that only 40% of estate agents actively ask...

360DotNet integrates with SortRefer

360DotNet has integrated SortRefer’s online conveyancing portal into 360 Dotnet’s client management system, 360 Lifecycle. Specifically designed...

Completions growth reported by Broker Conveyancing

Broker Conveyancing has reported a significant rise in quarterly completion levels for both purchases and remortgages for...

Legal & General Network rebrands

Legal & General Network will now be known as Legal & General Housing Partnerships....

Stonebridge Group appoints preferred conveyancers

Stonebridge Group has appointed two conveyancing operators, BM Solutions Conveyancing and eConveyancer, part of...

Don’t get your clients into a hole

It’s not often that a conveyancing-related story makes national news, however when I saw...

Helping with the ‘what next?’

Anyone who has bought a house for the first time, or even on subsequent...

COMMENT

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

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,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

Latest news

The Cambridge relaunches interest-only fixed rate mortgages

The Cambridge has relaunched a selection of fixed rate mortgage products, including interest-only options...

Vernon BS adds free legals to selected remortgage deals

Vernon Building Society has partnered with Optimus to introduce a free legals service on...

Paragon launches tailored buy-to-let service for complex cases

Paragon Bank has launched a Tailored service to support buy-to-let mortgage applications that fall...

Castle Trust Bank adds AVMs to buy-to-let applications

Castle Trust Bank has introduced automated valuation models on eligible buy-to-let cases as part...

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