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Go further and faster on easing, Welsh govt told

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has called on the Welsh Government to go ‘further’ and...

May residential transaction volumes up 16% on April

HMRC has reported that the provisional seasonally adjusted estimate of UK residential property transactions...

SDL Surveying sees rise in physical and desktop valuations

National residential surveying and valuations firm, SDL Surveying, has published its figures for May,...

MBE London Expo opens for free registration

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced that its London Expo, to be held at...

The Exeter reports rise in GP surgeries using electronic reports

The Exeter has revealed a significant increase in the number of GP reports being...

Nearly two million payment holidays taken

1.9 million mortgage payment deferrals have been granted to homeowners, three months since the...

Help to Buy back and LTVs up to 85% at Platform

Platform is reintroducing its Help to Buy mortgage range and also making mortgages of...

FCA extends consumer credit payment freeze

The FCA has announced proposals to extend the payment freeze of consumer credit products...

The Leeds improves mortgage holiday application process

The Leeds Building Society has updated and improved its online application process for temporary...

LMS: instructions continue to rise

LMS has published its latest weekly update, tracking remortgage market performance through the Covid-19...

Nationwide to cut maximum LTVs

The Nationwide Building Society is lowering the maximum loan to value (LTV) amount that...

Accord moves back into 90% LTV with FTB exclusives

Accord Mortgages is to offer 90% loan to value (LTV) products from 9am on...

Brilliant Solutions surveys broker sentiment

Brilliant Solutions has conducted research into current mortgage broker sentiment. Brokers revealed their biggest perceived challenges as well whether...

Research highlights changing working practices

56% of later life lending advisers think there will be a greater reliance on...

COMMENT

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

Why post-contract variation is becoming the mortgage market’s next battleground

For much of the past decade, mortgage technology investment has focused on origination and with good reason. Faster decisions in principle, automated affordability assessments,...

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Zoopla signs Manchester Super Giants shirt deal

Zoopla has become the first official front-of-shirt partner of Manchester Super Giants for the...

Southwest Knotweed launches identification app

Southwest Knotweed Group has launched an app designed to help mortgage and property professionals...

Broker Conveyancing launches referral hub for advisers

Broker Conveyancing has launched a referral platform intended to make it quicker for mortgage...

House price rise puts mortgage resilience in sharper focus

Homebuyers should consider how they would meet mortgage payments if illness or injury affected...

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