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Time for big ‘gesture politics’ to aid first-time buyers

The plight of first-time buyers is never far out of the news, and just...

Surveying the product transfer battleground

UK Finance’s publication of the first raft of product transfer data has certainly caused...

The value of experience

I’m always intrigued by the way other businesses are run – sometimes I look...

Second charge lender access is good for sector…

I am all in favour of more second charge lenders opening up direct access...

Transaction falls don’t tell the whole story

When we put together the LendInvest Buy to Let Index every quarter, we bring...

How can technology be used to meet rising demand for equity release?

The equity release market has experienced huge levels of growth in the last few...

High hopes and great confidence for the second half of the year

Without much fanfare we have crept into the second half of 2018 already –...

We need greater rate certainty for all

When Mark Carney became Governor of the Bank of England five years ago in...

Spending time on the holiday spending

As we approach the school summer holiday period it seems a very good time...

Consumers need your conveyancing advice

In this day and age, especially in the mortgage and housing markets, I believe...

Picking the perfect policy

There are currently more than 1.8 million private landlords operating in the UK. Being...

Expect further market growth in new build

Historically speaking, the words new build have been somewhat divisive within both consumer and...

Interim Report: reasons to be fearful

The whole industry, myself included, has now had some further time to digest the...

Why include second charge in your capital raising deliberations

If your reaction to the above is ‘why should I?’ then I won’t take...
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Why rigid credit scoring is locking too many people out of homeownership

Some people don’t fit the mould. That’s always been true in mortgage lending. But the tools used by most lenders to assess borrowers, particularly...

What a bigger market means for brokers

The latest Interpath and BDLA UK Bridging Market Survey confirms what many brokers are already experiencing on the ground, that bridging has hit the...

How social media can bridge the protection disconnect

The latest AMI Protection Viewpoint provided a compelling snapshot of the challenges and opportunities facing the protection market. The research highlights a worrying pattern that...

Opening doors for credit-worthy but overlooked clients

It doesn’t take much these days for a borrower to feel they’ve fallen out of favour with the system. A missed payment here, a...

Ministerial cock-ups could kill radical property taxes

At first it might appear that the mortgage industry and the housing sector as a whole should be cross with the Labour government. After all,...

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