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Landlords count cost of coronavirus

65% of landlords have suffered financially during the pandemic and four out of 10...

LV= pays out £6m in Covid claims

LV= has paid out over £6m in coronavirus-related income protection and death claims to...

Mortgage application growth behind house price rises

Halifax has reported that house prices in September were 1.6% higher than in August. The...

Brokers not getting enough sleep

Crystal Specialist Finance's (CSF) recent Health and Wellbeing Survey for the intermediary sector found...

The Later Life Lending Network expands team

The Right Mortgage's equity release proposition, The Later Life Lending Network, has added Adrian...

Jon Hall to leave Masthaven Bank in 2021

Jon Hall, chief commercial officer and Deputy CEO of Masthaven Bank, will to leave...

Mortgage Brain seeing ever increasing ESIS numbers

Mortgage Brain has reported that the number of ESIS generated through its sourcing system...

Brokers changing working patterns

Twenty7Tec's monthly market data for September has found that working patterns are changing for...

Canada Life improves equity release offering

Canada Life has made changes to all its Capital Select Options for home finance...

The Ipswich makes three senior appointments

The Ipswich Building Society has appointed Paul Johnson as its new finance director, Sian...

Coventry for Intermediaries adds new residential mortgages

Coventry for intermediaries is reintroducing more offset products, its Flexx Fixed up to 85%...

Skipton sees doubling in its social media conversations

The Skipton Building Society has seen the volume of its social media conversations double...

Mortgage Magic adds VOIP to CRM system

Mortgage Magic has updated its CRM and mortgage management system with the addition a...

Swansea BS unveils mortgage for medical professionals

The Swansea Building Society has introduced a new mortgage product specifically designed for medical professionals,...

COMMENT

No benefit to be had from ‘wait and see’

It seems to be a recurring theme as of late, but it’s been yet another week of volatile rates. Swap rates continue to move,...

What financial services can learn from the World Cup

Look, bear with us here. What does the World Cup have to do with financial services reviews? Well, more than you think actually! This summer,...

Buyers are already reacting to a Budget nobody has written

Andy Burnham ruled out changes to stamp duty on 27 July, a week into the job and days after reports that the government was...

The tech question is how, not if, we can use it

Recent adviser research from Nottingham Building Society underlines the appetite for greater use of technology across the mortgage process. The vast majority (89%) of...

Mortgage maturity: A golden opportunity for advisers

Around 1.8 million fixed-rate mortgage deals are due to come to an end in 2026, adding to the 1.6 million mortgages that already matured...

Latest news

Nationwide trims fixed mortgage rates by up to 0.19 points

Nationwide is cutting fixed mortgage rates for first-time buyers, home movers and remortgage customers...

Walbrook launches mortgage adviser apprenticeship pathway

Walbrook Institute London has expanded its apprenticeship offering with a new Level 3 pathway...

Mortgage Advice Bureau combines new-build businesses under Meridian Group

Mortgage Advice Bureau has completed the integration of three specialist new-build mortgage businesses into...

UTB restores 90% LTV second charge lending and cuts rates

United Trust Bank has reintroduced residential second charge lending at up to 90% loan-to-value...

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