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Need for protection policies that cover fractures

Adults don't believe individual protection policies cover everyday risks such as broken bones, according...

Apex Bridging offers exclusive for Bridging & Commercial Club

Apex Bridging is providing the Bridging & Commercial Club with its second exclusive bridging...

Coventry for Intermediaries updates daily rate contractor criteria

Coventry for intermediaries has updated its lending policy in a move designed to reflect...

Ipswich exclusive for Legal & General Mortgage Club members

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced an exclusive residential offering for its members...

Top criteria searches keep changing

Knowledge Bank has stated that the top five most searched-for criteria by brokers have...

FIBA to sponsor new property sector event

The Financial Intermediary and Broker Association (FIBA) is to sponsor a new event in...

Bank of Mum and Dad works both ways

49% of millennials (23-38 year olds) have provided financial support to their parents, according to...

Paymentshield bolsters Marketing Toolkit

Paymentshield has introduced new resources onto its online Marketing Toolkit. The new content takes Paymentshield’s...

Aldermore unveils VAT loans for commercial purchases

Aldermore had introduced VAT loans to cover the VAT due on the purchase of...

Assurant Intermediary and Safe&Secure increase business volumes

Assurant Intermediary has doubled its monthly business volumes with general insurance brokers Safe&Secure since...

TSB cuts homebuyer and remortgage rates

TSB has cut interest rates by up to 0.10 percentage points on mortgages for...

April first-time buyer completions up 8% year-on-year

UK Finance has published its Mortgage Trends Update for April 2019. There were 27,370 new...

3.5m over-65s feel guilty about spending cash

29% of people in the UK aged over 65 worry about spending money on...

18m in UK have “illness denial”

AIG Life has stated that 18.3 million people are living with what it has termed...
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Commonhold and Leasehold Reform

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

Why post-contract variation is becoming the mortgage market’s next battleground

For much of the past decade, mortgage technology investment has focused on origination and with good reason. Faster decisions in principle, automated affordability assessments,...

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Bridging Soup launches major market research initiative

Bridging Soup has launched a new research initiative to build a clearer picture of...
House prices

Just one in seven homes records five years of growth

Fewer than one in seven UK homes increased in value during every year of...
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Word On The Street arranges £108m of property finance in record year

Word On The Street arranged more than £108 million of property finance across 239...
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Beverley enhances SIPP income assessment

Beverley Building Society has introduced a tiered approach to assessing income from self-invested personal...

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