Debt

Small businesses going legal over debt

The volume of County Court Judgements brought by small businesses rose by 23% from the...

Secured lender see more clients wanting out of DMPs

Equifinance has witnessed a rise in clients wanting to exit their Debt Management Plan...

A further 700,000 households in default by 2020

Consumer debt defaults will increase by 17% over the next five years according to...

12.4% annual house price growth for London

The Land Registry has reported an annual price increase of 6.4% in December 2015. This takes...

64% of remortgagors secured a lower rate

11% of borrowers who remortgaged in December did so to pay off other debts...

Surge in debt consolidation mortgage enquiries

Kensington Mortgages has found a noticeable increase in the number of people looking to consolidate their...

Average individual unsecured debt now over £6k

Brits are taking on an increasing amount of unsecured debt, according to MoneySuperMarket. Individuals in...

20% have no idea how they’d cope with rate rise

TSB has found that 72% of homeowners are likely to see their mortgage payments...

14% rise in number of tenants with serious arrears

There was a 13.8% quarterly increase in the number of tenants seriously behind on...

Households’ financial anxiety on the rise

Adults' financial anxiety in 2015 has increased sharply since 2014 and is now back to the...

Rents cooling in run-up to Christmas

Rents across England and Wales have fallen below the £800 mark, according to the...

Rise in brokered remortgage volumes

31% of borrowers who remortgaged in November, did so to increase the size of...

One in seven hide debts from their partner

Couples are keeping millions of pounds worth of money secrets from each other and...

Many Brits unprepared for bank rate rise

TSB has surveyed thousands of homeowners across the country to fully understand how prepared Britain...
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COMMENT

Homebuying

Removing friction from the homebuying journey

One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...

Build, baby, build? Well we will need to fund more than the usual suspects

There was a noticeable sense of optimism at UKREiiF this year. That may sound surprising given the economic headwinds of recent years, but the...

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market riding high

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market has created real value for customers – there’s no excuse to ignore it. When a UK borrower reaches 55,...

How small and medium-sized lenders can fix the origination headache

We are constantly told that to fix the mortgage journey, we need to rip everything out and start again. That unless a lender replaces its...

A new PM brings a new opportunity to rethink housing policy

Politics, as it seems to do in recent times, has moved at remarkable speed over the last couple of weeks. In what feels like...

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networks

National Friendly joins Primis panel

National Friendly's range of protection products are now available to advisers across the Primis...
Brokers

‘AI challenges intermediation,’ warns FCA

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today released its long-awaited Mills Review, which sets...
Housing

Burnham’s property tax could hit mortgage lending, warns Maskells

A proposed proportional property tax backed by Andy Burnham could hit mortgage lending, tighten...
Appointments

Des Moore joins Suffolk BS as non-executive director 

Des Moore, former Cumberland Building Society chief executive officer, will join the Suffolk Building...

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