Features

Credit limit reduction prompts debt consolidation conversation

You may have seen the news recently that Barclaycard has cut the credit limits...

Yields are going in the right direction

The quest for yield amongst landlord participants in the private rental sector is perhaps...

Government intervention in high LTV market – timely and necessary?

Government intervention in the mortgage market is always going to have its critics. After...

Cutting the cost of collapsed house purchases for clients

The property market is in extraordinary shape. The latest data from HM Revenue &...

Technology can help alleviate conveyancers’ stress

On 8 July 2020, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced that a temporary Stamp Duty Land...

“If you build it, they will come”

I’ll freely admit that it’s not particularly cutting-edge or surfing the zeitgeist wave, to...

Four tips to nail those protection conversations

Making protection meaningful to clients can be a challenge, especially when it comes to...

Wills offer chance for brokers to build stronger client relationships

Nobody wants to be the bearer of bad news. Brokers know all too well...

Q&A: Take your pick

BestAdvice talks to Ian Smart, product architect at Royal London, about how protection perceptions...

IHT planning for a better future

In his Budget earlier this month the Chancellor announced that the inheritance tax (IHT)...

Q&A: All change

Having just announced a new technology platform and rebrand, BestAdvice talked to Martin Schultheiss,...

Making a difference

Jo Whiley and Marcus Rashford have shown how to make a difference recently. They...

The increasing importance of new build

Two words which I believe best sum up the new build housing market in...

Working it out to reshape the housing market

The question around what the pandemic and lockdown living will ultimately mean for the...
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COMMENT

Comment

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

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Chancellor presses lenders to expand support for borrowers ahead of rate resets

The government has secured fresh commitments from major lenders to step up engagement with...
Building Societies

Suffolk BS tops £800m in mortgage assets after strong 2025 growth

Suffolk Building Society has passed £800m of mortgage assets for the first time after...
criteria

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...
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Foundation returns with revised buy-to-let and residential mortgage range

Foundation has returned to the market with a revised product range across both buy-to-let...

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