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FCA proposes temporary consumer credit relief

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has proposed a range of targeted temporary measures designed...

Gatehouse Bank cuts FTV to 65%

Gatehouse Bank is reducing its maximum finance to value (FTV) on its buy-to-let and Home...

Aspen utilises desktop valuations to continue to lend

Aspen Bridging insists it will continue to lend through the coronavirus pandemic and is...

Oblix Capital tech partnership minimises remote working impact

Oblix Capital has teamed up with technology firm Nivo Solutions to enable the use...

Bank of Ireland sets 85% LTV cap

Bank of Ireland UK is temporarily withdrawing all new business mortgage and further advance...

Covid-19: home insurance referral service established

CETA Insurance has set up a new service to help smaller brokers, IFAs and...

Debt charity calls for long-term changes to support

A leading debt charity has warned that the Covid-19 crisis has revealed widespread financial...

Credit reference agencies to protect credit scores

The three major credit reference agencies (CRAs), Experian, Equifax and TransUnion have confirmed that...

Regulators should ensure lenders don’t profit from crisis

ME Group, which solves legal disputes using technology, has called for the government to...

Paradigm adds AVMs to Lender Matrix

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added a new section of information capturing lenders’ automatic valuation...

Foundation Home Loans suspends new applications

Foundation Home Loans has become the latest lender to temporarily suspend all new applications. It...

The Nationwide sets 75% maximum LTV

The Nationwide Building Society is today (Tuesday 31 March) temporarily withdrawing 'high' loan to...

The Skipton to reinstate residential & BTL purchases

The Skipton Building Society says it will shortly be reinstating purchase business by extending...

Accord makes widespread valuation changes

Accord Mortgages has updated its valuation policy to ensure that new applications can be...

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Mansion tax plans resurface as Prime London prices slide

Thirteen years since the Liberal Democrats first proposed a Mansion Tax on properties over £2 million the Treasury is reportedly considering the same plan. Even...

Chris Williams on being the architect of connection

For most of the last decade Chris Williams has been dissecting the machinery of the UK property market and helping industry understand how it...

Collaboration, not quick fixes, must drive the next phase of reform

As we edge closer to the autumn Budget, the housing market finds itself in a familiar state of anticipation and uncertainty. Inflation remains stubbornly high,...

Goodbye Piccadilly; farewell Leicester Square!

It is indeed a long way to Tipperary, even longer if you take one of those dodgy rickshaws that proliferate the London’s West End....

Navigating the end of ‘Covid mortgages’: strategic insights for brokers

This year marks a significant turning point in the UK mortgage market as many homeowners reach the end of their covid mortgage, where many...

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Mortgage market slows pre-Budget but product choice hits record high

The mortgage market lost momentum in October as buyers adopted a wait-and-see approach ahead...

Keystone boosts efficiency with criteria overhaul

Keystone Property Finance has introduced a raft of criteria enhancements designed to speed up...

Clydesdale Bank to cut fixed mortgage rates by up to 0.30%

Clydesdale Bank is set to reduce rates across several of its mortgage ranges from...

HSBC raises income multiple for Premier borrowers to 6.5 times salary

HSBC UK has increased the maximum loan-to-income (LTI) ratio available to its Premier customers...

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