LATEST COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS NEWS

Accord back to offering 90% LTV mortgages more consistently

Tomorrow (18 November) Accord Mortgages will reintroduce a selection of 90% LTV products into...

FCA confirms Covid support for mortgage borrowers

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed updated guidance to firms setting out "enhanced...

Funding 365 attains CBILS accreditation

Funding 365 has been accredited as a new lender under the Coronavirus Business Interruption...

MAB to provide fee free advice to Blue Light Card members

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has agreed a new partnership with Blue Light Card, a...

No payment holiday arranged for half of missed payments

Pepper Money has revealed that almost half of people who have missed payments on credit...

Mortgage search volumes rose after second lockdown began

Twenty7Tec has published data on the state of the mortgage market one week after...

Reward Finance Group funds sanitiser business growth

Wolverhampton-based X-Mist, which has invented a dry sanitation process, has received a £400,000 business...

Fiduciam grows N. Ireland operations with wedding venue loan

Fiduciam is expanding its operations in Northern Ireland with the issuing of a Coronavirus...

A very different lockdown

The second national lockdown in England is now underway and there does seem to...

Kuflink sees investment levels recover to pre-Covid levels

Peer-to-peer based bridging lender, Kuflink, has reported that new investment levels have recovered to...

Financial implications of kids returning home revealed

35% of grown up children have returned to the family home,= since the beginning...

Tenant demand stalls in central London

New research has found that landlords saw increased tenant demand in most regions in...

TMA: use tech to deal with product maturation spike

TMA Club is calling on advisers who aren’t doing so already to start using...

House price growth to slow despite record highs

Halifax has revealed that house prices in October were 7.5% higher than in the...
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COMMENT

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We must not accept our snail’s pace home buying system

Buying a house in this country can be ridiculously slow, as a handful of recent studies have highlighted. Research from the House Buyer Bureau...

Deferment and capitalisation rates: small percentages, large consequences

The Government is currently consulting on Leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates to determine what deferment and capitalisation rates should be prescribed under the Leasehold and...

Your clients can’t tell which firm they’re dealing with

Two clients walk into your firm in the same week. One of them is a referral from a mate of yours. Complicated case, self-employed, bit...

It’s time to look at retention

As the summer winds down and the back-to-school routine kicks back in, I urge the industry to turn its attention to something just as...

Landlords are buying – and advisers should take note

There has been no shortage of commentary over recent years suggesting landlords are heading for the exit, buy-to-let apparently no longer works and the...

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