Homebuying

Novello joins OPDA as it prepares AI-led surveying platform

Novello Chartered Surveyors has joined the Open Property Data Association as the surveying firm...

Four-month fall in sales agreed signals weaker mortgage market

Mortgage lenders face a potentially weaker final quarter after property sales agreed fell by...

Quarter of homebuyers conceal spending as mortgage pressures mount

More than a quarter of prospective and recent homebuyers have hidden or played down...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder,...

Berkeley calls for stamp duty overhaul to kick-start housing market

Berkeley Group has called on the Government to slash stamp duty for first-time buyers...

Property industry moves to speed up mortgage transactions

Lenders, conveyancers and estate agents are testing new ways of sharing property information earlier...

House price fall fails to solve first-time buyer deposit barrier

Millions of working renters remain unable to buy their first home despite UK house...

Market recovery remains fragile as buyer demand improves

Buyer demand and agreed sales improved again in August but uncertainty over mortgage rates...

Conveyancers warn Government plan could push up homebuyer fees

Homebuyers could face higher conveyancing fees under Government proposals to redirect some of the...

TPFG mortgage lending jumps 17% to £2.7bn

The Property Franchise Group's mortgage advisers arranged £2.7bn of lending during the first half...

The technology that matters doesn’t make the decision

We have a tendency when talking about mortgage technology to start with what it...

Semi-detached homes lead house price growth

Semi-detached and terraced homes are outperforming the rest of the housing market as buyers...

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...

FCA explores rent payments as mortgage evidence

Rental payment histories could play a greater role in mortgage affordability assessments as the...
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COMMENT

Comment

Should mortgage advisers consider the emerging secondary market for life policies?

Mortgage advisers regularly help clients navigate major life changes. While much of the focus is naturally on borrowing, refinancing and insurance, there is another...

One mortgage journey no longer fits every borrower

In the mortgage market, we have lots of different ways of describing customers depending on where they are in their lives. We talk about...

Closing the protection gap starts with informed clients

Millions of people have no protection insurance coverage and could be left vulnerable in the event of a death in the family, serious illness...

The fall in BTL company formations isn’t the whole story

It is often the case with housing and mortgage market data that the headline figure attracts most of the attention, while some of the...

Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

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Technology

The Monmouthshire expands mortgage platform pilot to more intermediaries

Monmouthshire Building Society has widened the intermediary pilot of its new mortgage origination platform,...
Building Societies

The Cambridge adds 98% LTV five-year fix for first-time buyers

Cambridge Building Society has widened access to its First Step range with a 98%...
Technology

Monicio targets mortgage admin burden with AI-powered CRM

Mortgage technology provider Monicio has launched an AI-powered CRM designed to automate administrative work...
charity

Foundation colleagues take on Snowdon challenge for Centrepoint

Foundation and Catalyst colleagues have climbed Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) as part of a fundraising...

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