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Hodge reintroduces later-life purchases

Hodge is lifting temporary restrictions to its mortgage products. The lender can now accept...

TMA extends Eligible.ai partnership

TMA has announced the extension of its partnership with Eligible.ai to offer its members...

OneFamily outlines remote applications policy

OneFamily has made some changes to its processes to ensure that its lifetime mortgage...

Paradigm offers free compliance support

Paradigm Mortgage Services has launched a new offer to directly authorised (DA) firms with...

Nearly half of UK SMEs worry about their ability to survive

Nearly half of SMEs in the UK are concerned about the immediate business viability...

ABI: Covid-19 payouts likely to top £1.2bn

Initial estimates from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) suggest that its members expect...

Bank of Ireland updates include mortgage holiday product transfers

Bank of Ireland UK has announced a range of additional supports for mortgage customers. Product...

Call for urgent stamp duty holiday

The property law firm Collyer Bristow has echoed the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors'...

Combined effort to prevent Covid-19 scam texts

The UK mobile industry, banking and finance sector and the National Cyber Security Centre...

National Friendly launches new telephone and video GP service

National Friendly has linked with digital health provider of remote primary care, Medical Solutions,...

Weekly rise in remortgage instruction volumes

LMS has reported an increase in remortgage instruction volumes, following a dip after the...

LV= unveils protection payment break

LV= is introducing ‘payment break’ financial support for qualifying existing members with LV= protection...

Aspen Bridging maintains pre-Covid property valuations

Aspen Bridging has declared that it will lend on pre Covid-19 property values. The bridging...

Openwork boosts training support

Openwork is increasing its training and education support to help firms improve their client...
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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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Gilt turmoil puts fresh pressure on mortgage rates

Rising government borrowing costs are putting renewed upward pressure on UK mortgage rates as...
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UK needs first primary surplus in 25 years, warns NIESR

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Bank of England turns to AI and real-time mortgage data

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