Homebuying

NPTN by LMS assembles industry panel to examine property market reform

NPTN by LMS will bring together senior property industry figures for a live webinar...

Stamp duty blamed as home moves fall to once every 21 years

Stamp duty is deterring millions of people from moving home and restricting opportunities for...

Digital ID trust mark could speed up mortgage applications

A new government-backed digital identity trust mark could help mortgage brokers and lenders reduce...

Mortgage approvals fall as affordability pressures weigh on buyers

Mortgage approvals and net borrowing fell below recent averages in July as volatile interest...

UK residential property transactions fall in July as uncertainty weighs on market

UK residential property transactions declined in July on a seasonally adjusted basis as borrowing...

Iamproperty joins drive for open property data standards

Iamproperty has joined the Open Property Data Association (OPDA) as the industry seeks to...

First-time buyer support tops Gen Z priorities

Support for building new homes locally is almost twice as high as opposition while...

Independent surveyors ‘must be central to home-buying reforms’

Independent surveyors should play a central role in England's proposed home-buying reforms, according to...

Inflation rises to 2.9% in fresh setback for mortgage rates

UK inflation increased to 2.9% in July, moving further above the Bank of England’s...

1,000 borrowers sign mortgage deeds digitally in under three minutes

The first 1,000 customers have signed their mortgage deeds using Qualified Electronic Signatures through...

Half of homes taking longer to sell as regional divide widens

Homes in almost half of Great Britain’s local authority areas are taking longer to...

Revived Help to Buy would inflate prices: Lamdin

Restoring Help to Buy would strengthen developers’ sales without solving the underlying affordability crisis...

Nationwide cuts fixed mortgage rates by up to 0.15%

Nationwide Building Society is reducing selected fixed mortgage rates by up to 0.15 percentage...

Modern auction house sales rise by 14.5%

House purchases through modern method auctions increased by 14.5% year on year as buyers...
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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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