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Smart Money People launches latest broker feedback survey
Smart Money People has opened its latest Mortgage Lender Benchmark survey, with brokers already...
22 October 2025
Graeme Winser joins e4 Strategic board as NED
Digital property solutions firm e4 Strategic has appointed Graeme Winser as a non-executive director. The...
22 October 2025
Atom bank expands mortgage team after Newcastle office move
Atom bank is adding new roles to its mortgage division following its relocation from...
22 October 2025
HTB appoints Paula Priest as Midlands BDM
Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has expanded its specialist mortgages team with the appointment of...
22 October 2025
Conveyancing Association unveils 2026 conference theme and venue
The Conveyancing Association has confirmed that its 2026 Annual Conference will take place on...
22 October 2025
The Darlington surpasses £1bn in assets
Darlington Building Society has reached a new milestone with total assets now exceeding £1...
22 October 2025
CLC wins £750k grant to drive digital transformation of property transactions
The Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) has secured almost £750,000 in government funding to...
22 October 2025
Commonhold and AI dominate debate at ALEP annual conference
The annual conference of the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP) drew more than...
21 October 2025
The Right Mortgage adds 4Corners Property to conveyancing panel
The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has added 4Corners Property to its conveyancing panel,...
20 October 2025
Stamp duty reform faces early pushback
Kemi Badenoch’s pledge to abolish stamp duty on home sales, which she described last...
13 October 2025
Police warn of rising conveyancing fraud as property buyers lose £11.7m
The City of London Police has issued a fresh warning to estate agents, conveyancers...
13 October 2025
BREAKING NEWS: A triple Christmas bonus for brokers
In Kemi ‘Badenough’s’ closing speech at the Conservative Conference in Manchester this week she...
10 October 2025
Aspen completes 10-day £700k bridge using new dual representation service
Aspen Bridging has completed its first transactions under a new dual representation legal service...
9 October 2025
The nightmare of UK homebuying needs reform
House sellers will be forced to disclose problems with their homes before sale under...
7 October 2025
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COMMENT
Advice
Approvals hit a 2.5-year low: When broker value gets proven – or missed
Net mortgage approvals dropped to 56,200 in May – the lowest since December 2023 - down from 66,000 the month before. Net borrowing fell from...
7 July 2026
Removing friction from the homebuying journey
One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...
3 July 2026
Build, baby, build? Well we will need to fund more than the usual suspects
There was a noticeable sense of optimism at UKREiiF this year. That may sound surprising given the economic headwinds of recent years, but the...
2 July 2026
Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market riding high
Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market has created real value for customers – there’s no excuse to ignore it. When a UK borrower reaches 55,...
1 July 2026
How small and medium-sized lenders can fix the origination headache
We are constantly told that to fix the mortgage journey, we need to rip everything out and start again. That unless a lender replaces its...
1 July 2026
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Nationwide cuts mortgage rates across fixed and tracker range
Nationwide has cut mortgage rates across its fixed-rate range and reduced selected tracker products. The...
7 July 2026
Technology
Top proptech providers join forces
Four of the UK’s leading Proptech providers – LMS, Landmark Information Group, InfoTrack and...
7 July 2026
Buy-to-let
Landbay launches new remortgage AVM products
Buy-to-let lender, Landbay, has launched new premier remortgage AVM two-year fixed-rate products and reduced...
7 July 2026
Second Charge
Second charge boost as industry veterans launch Flamingo Money
Two experienced specialist finance professionals have launched a new secured loans and second charge...
7 July 2026
PROFILES
Claire Cherrington on the opportunities ahead for mortgage clubs
Steve Caruthers on understanding how lenders operate
Kevin Tunnicliffe on ending the race to the bottom