LATEST COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS NEWS

HMRC: April transactions down 53% year-on-year

HMRC has revealed that its provisional seasonally adjusted estimate of UK property transactions in...

Mortgage Brain: weekly ESIS volumes up for three consecutive weeks

Mortgage Brain has seen both ESIS and product numbers reach their highest levels since...

New LendInvest buy-to-let rates from 2.99%

LendInvest has made a changes to its buy-to-let product range as valuations are permitted...

West One resumes physical valuations and relaunches 70% BTL

West One Loans has updated its buy-to-let product range and is resuming physical valuations. The...

More2Life introduces two-track valuation strategy

Equity release lender, More2Life, is now offering customers access to physical valuations as well...

The Ipswich restarts new purchase lending

The Ipswich Building Society has resumed lending for new purchases, including 90% LTV for...

VAS Panel launches project monitoring service

VAS Panel has unveiled Project Monitoring, a new service which uses its valuation panel...

AMI pleased by insurer changes following FCA guidance

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has welcomed the changes insurers have made following...

OSB lenders increase LTVs to 75%

OneSavings Bank (OSB) has unveiled a new product range across its three lending brands...

CII offers support to struggling members

At the end of April approximately 2% of the Chartered Insurance Institute’s (CII) membership...

Just Group returns to physical valuations

Just's surveyor partner has recommenced physical valuations in England as of Monday 18 May. Physical...

Platform to reintroduce buy-to-let and allow physical inspections

Platform has stated that its valuation partners are now able to carry out physical...

Mortgage enquiries down but remo applications up at Trussle

Online mortgage broker Trussle has revealed that mortgage enquiries fell by 37% from March...

Shawbrook restarts physical valuations

Shawbrook Bank  has stated that physical valuations will recommence with immediate effect, following the...
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Beyond the Robo-Adviser: why the future of mortgages is ‘Human Plus’

The fintech industry is obsessing over a binary choice: the traditional human broker or the fully automated 'robo-adviser'. But as we navigate the complexities...

Ceasefire boosts sentiment more than mortgage market

What goes up must come down, but for mortgage rates the drop will be notably more gradual than the sharp increase triggered by the...

A surge today, but what comes next for advisers and conveyancing?

March has provided a very clear example of how quickly this market can move when lenders feel the need to take action, with widespread...

Technology adapts so you don’t have to

20 years ago, many brokerages looked and operated in very similar ways. Typically small, local business, many firms focused solely on standard residential mortgage...

Rental barometer shows strength, but March changes the tone

Looking at our recently published Q1 2026 Rental Barometer data in isolation, there is clearly a strong and positive story to tell. Average rental...

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