General Insurance

L&G adds new category for Business Quality Awards

Legal & General has revealed details for its seventh annual Business Quality Awards (BQAs). Launched...

Paymentshield goes paperless

Paymentshield has announced that customers will now receive their home insurance policy documents online. New...

Simple Landlords Insurance awarded 5 Star Defaqto rating

Simple Landlords Insurance has received the highest 5 Star Rating from financial information business,...

Paymentshield expands home insurance panel

Paymentshield has increased the total number of members of its home insurance panel to...

New lettings proposition from Paymentshield

Paymentshield has launched a new lettings offering, as it celebrates its 25th anniversary. While continuing...

Source Insurance makes senior management changes

Source insurance has appointed two new directors to its main board. Tania Frowen joins the...

Touch base before the summer holiday

Summertime and earning a living ain’t easy. That’s the traditional view of the UK housing...

Bankhall unveils new mortgage, protection and GI compliance solution

Bankhall has launched a new compliance support solution for directly FCA authorised firms. The...

Landbay offers point-of-demand insurance for landlords

Landbay has partnered with Legal & General to launch Landbay Insurance, a point-of-demand insurance service...

Paymentshield gets positive service feedback from brokers

Paymentshield is providing above average levels of service, according to its latest broker survey...

FCA seeks feedback on consumer access to insurance

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is seeking views and evidence of the challenges firms...

TMA on the road in June

TMA Mortgage Club is holding a number of regional roadshows in June for its...

‘Record figures’ for First Complete and Pink

First Complete and Pink have reported that their mortgage, protection and general insurance sales...

Ideal bedroom-bathroom ratio revealed

According to estate agents, a property should have two bathrooms for every three bedrooms...

COMMENT

Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for stimulus, this time: abolish stamp duty. The logic feels intuitive -...

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...

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Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for...

LendInvest bolsters residential and BTL broker support with Glasgow team expansion

LendInvest has expanded its commercial support team with a particular focus on helping brokers...

Hackathons test property data sharing in homebuying push

Proptech firms have tested how property data can be shared across the home-moving process...

Foundation refreshes buy-to-let range with new products and rate cuts

Foundation has refreshed its buy-to-let mortgage range with new products and rate reductions across...

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