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Covid-19 roundtable: are lenders treating customers fairly?

The coronavirus crisis has provoked reactions ranging from frustration to sympathy towards lenders from...

E.surv anticipates growth in demand for its remote valuations

E.surv has extended the deployment of its tailored remote valuation solution. The residential chartered surveyors originally...

Covid-19: Tenet boss hosts live videoconferences

Mark Scanlon, Tenet’s chief executive, hosted the first in a series of live video...

Knowledge Bank: Covid-19 searches most popular in March

Knowledge Bank’ has revealed that ‘Covid-19 Mortgage Payment Holidays’ was the most searched for...

Stonebridge extends Covid-19 business support

Mortgage and insurance network Stonebridge has launched a new Covid-19 support hub page for...

New lenders for coronavirus business loan scheme

the British Business Bank has approved four new lenders for accreditation under the Coronavirus...

RICS data shows extent of deterioration in market sentiment

The latest RICS UK Residential Survey has found that sentiment across the UK housing...

Covid-19: two-thirds of 75% LTV products withdrawn

AmTrust’s latest Mortgage Loan to Value (LTV) Tracker has shown a major drop in...

FIBA offers SimplyBiz Group’s Covid-19 support

FIBA, as part of the SimplyBiz Group, has revealed that its members can access...

LMS: healthy remortgage volumes entering the pipeline

LMS is publishing weekly updates, tracking remortgage market performance through the Covid-19 pandemic. Seasonally, the...

Skipton reintroduces products up to 75% LTV

The Skipton Building Society is reintroducing its residential purchase mortgage range as well as...

Pure Retirement introduces desktop valuations for lifetime mortgages

Pure Retirement is offering desktop valuation solutions for the majority of its lifetime mortgage...

Just Mortgages sees pre-lockdown application spike

Brokers at Just Mortgages have seen one of their busiest weeks ever, as clients...

The Mortgage Lender Benchmark opens survey

The Mortgage Lender Benchmark has returned to establish which lenders are providing the best...
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COMMENT

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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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