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LendInvest reports stronger profitability in H1

LendInvest has reported a rise in profitability and lending activity in its half-year results...

Mortgage searches fall by 14.64% after Budget shake up

Twenty7tec’s latest data shows that November brought a clear pause in borrower behaviour, with...

South Africa’s biggest mortgage broker backs The Mortgage Brain

The BetterHome Group, South Africa’s largest mortgage broker, has taken a 25% stake in...

NO FILTER: MAB’s relentless founder on risk, resilience and reinvention

Peter Brodnicki, co-founder and long-serving chief executive of Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), has spent...

AUTUMN BUDGET: Industry braces for impact

On Wednesday, the Chancellor is due to deliver the second highly anticipated Autumn Budget...

PM Data Services launch Genie buy-to-let sourcing engine

PM Data Services – the team behind digital broker Property Master - has launched...

Why UPRNs and data standards are central to the next generation NLIS

In October 2025, through the Fourth Round of the Regulators’ Pioneer Fund (RPF), Government’s...

Why the human relationship still defines real estate lending

AI is now a core driver of transformation in financial services and is reshaping...

OneDome named among UK’s fastest-growing tech firms

Property and fintech platform OneDome has been ranked 17th in the 2025 Deloitte UK...

Majority of advice firms now trialling AI and RegTech to cut compliance costs

More than half of UK financial advice firms are now testing or trialling artificial...

Chris Williams on being the architect of connection

For most of the last decade Chris Williams has been dissecting the machinery of...

Allica Bank acquires fintech Kriya in £1bn SME lending push

Allica Bank has acquired Kriya, the SME credit and payments fintech formerly known as...

Simplify wins Best Digital Transformation at UK Customer Experience Awards

Simplify has been named Best Digital Transformation winner at the UK Customer Experience Awards,...

Roland McCormack on driving transformation in the mortgage market

The Teams window flickers into life and then Roland McCormack appears in the bottom...
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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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New housebuilder registrations fall 34% from 2022 peak

The number of housebuilding companies being established in the UK has fallen by 34%...
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HSBC UK to raise rates across residential and buy-to-let ranges

HSBC UK will increase rates across a range of two-year and five-year fixed mortgages...
Economy

Gilt turmoil puts fresh pressure on mortgage rates

Rising government borrowing costs are putting renewed upward pressure on UK mortgage rates as...
Economy

UK needs first primary surplus in 25 years, warns NIESR

The UK needs to run its first primary budget surplus in 25 years if...

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