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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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Commonhold and Leasehold Reform

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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