LATEST COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS NEWS

Equity Release Supermarket launches video chat

Equity Release Supermarket (ERS) has announced the launch of new online video capability to provide...

Sesame offers advisers free access to health and wellbeing support

Sesame has partnered with specialist provider Care first to increase its health and wellbeing...

BEP Systems upgrades client borrower portals

Mortgage and savings origination software house, BEP Systems, has developed the functionality of borrower...

Covid-19: Risks from suspending health and wellbeing benefits

Towergate Health & Protection has stated that looking after the mental and physical wellbeing...

MoneySuperMarket unveils payment holiday calculator

MoneySuperMarket, alongside its joint venture partner Podium, has launched a mortgage payment holiday calculator...

Buyers and sellers expect five-month hiatus

New research by Trussle has found that people who have been planning to buy...

Covid-19 dominates FCA’s 2020/21 business priorities

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out its business priorities for the year...

Connect completes its first ‘Virtual Academy’

Connect for Intermediaries has successfully run its first academy for new brokers on a...

Equity Release Council makes temporary change to legal advice rules

The Equity Release Council has temporarily changed the requirement for equity release customers to...

Lendlord issues daily coronavirus updates

Lendlord has introduced a range of free tools to help landlords manage their buy-to-let...

Covid-19: PRIMIS unveils support hub within Toolbox

PRIMIS Mortgage Network has introduced a new support hub within its exclusive customer relationship...

Paradigm Protect issues provider Covid-19 document

Paradigm Protect has launched a new Covid-19 update document with details on how its...

Covid-19: 214 lender product changes last week

Mortgage Brain has seen a major reduction in mortgage products, a further increase in...

More 2 Life unveils semi-automated valuations

More 2 Life has become the first volume lender the equity release sector to introduce...
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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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