LATEST COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS NEWS

NatWest IS pulls all Exclusive residential products

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has announced the withdrawal of its residential Exclusive products. The products will...

Vida Homeloans set to return following securitisation

Belmont Green, the parent company of lender Vida Homeloans, has announced the pricing of...

VAS to provide desktop valuations for existing loan books

VAS Group’s valuation management division has launched Collateral Monitoring, in order to help with...

Covid-19 causing over-60s to rethink care plans

Canada Life has reported that 55% of the million over-60s who say they are...

MCI: activity returning to pre-Covid levels

MCI Club has reported that pre-mortgage activity in June has returned to the same...

Equity release customer numbers fell 27% in Q2

The latest Market Monitor from Key has found that while homeowners aged 55+ released...

Criteria searches up 68%

Knowledge Bank’s criteria activity tracker has revealed that brokers’ searches have increased by 68%,...

“Vast majority” of brokers open for business

53% of property and commercial finance brokers responding to United Trust Bank’s most recent...

Covid’s effects on physical and mental health revealed

Research from protection provider LV= has found that lockdown has benefitted the general population’s...

Conveyancers call for Welsh govt to match Stamp Duty changes

The Conveyancing Association (CA), which represents the conveyancing industry, has today called on the...

Majority of brokers at 100% of pre-Covid capacity

53% of property and commercial finance brokers responding to United Trust Bank’s most recent...

Stamp Duty cut until March 2021

As widely predicted, the Chancellor announced a temporary cut to Stamp Duty today. Rishi Sunak...

Paragon resumes physical valuations in Scotland & Wales

Paragon Bank has announced that surveyors will recommence physical valuations of properties in Scotland...

CA provides guidance on ‘local lockdown’ house moves

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has provided member firms and affiliates with guidance on how...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

PROFILES