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Strong membership growth for the Equity Release Council

Membership of the Equity Release Council has increased annually by 46% to more than...

Trio of appointments for Gatehouse Bank

Gatehouse Bank has appointed Georgina Taylor, Sinead Hendrikse and Tyler Sullivan as case managers...

TMA offers exclusive Day One remortgage deals from the Bucks BS

TMA Club has announced an exclusive Day One remortgage range with Buckinghamshire Building Society,...

Mortgage brokers are benefiting from growing web traffic

A new report from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has found that a...

RICS: Brexit taking its toll on housing market

Continuing uncertainty caused by the Brexit process is causing buyers and sellers to sit...

Fundamental change in coming, warns Conveyancing Association

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has used its Annual Conference to urge member firms to...

Mortgage Brain makes improvements to ConveyancingBrain

Mortgage Brain has made a number of new system enhancements to its online comparison...

Increasingly expensive homes being used for OneFamily lifetime mortgages

The price of a property OneFamily lends on is now 59% higher than average,...

Remortgaging at highest rate for a decade

UK Finance has reported that there were 50,500 new homeowner remortgages completed in October,...

TDS Charitable Foundation granted £136k in 2018

The TDS Charitable Foundation has published its annual review which shows that 13 different...

2.5 million young adults live with their partner’s parents

2.5 million (12%) ‘children’ have returned to live in their parents’ home with their...

ALEP welcomes commonhold reform consultation

The Law Commission has published its Consultation Paper on commonhold reform. Entitled ‘Reinvigorating commonhold: the...

Royal London CEO to step down

Royal London's group CEO Phil Loney has decided to stand down by the end...

NatWest announces rate increases

NatWest is introducing tomorrow (12 December) rate changes on selected core and semi-exclusive residential...
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How brokers can secure better client outcomes in a volatile market

Experience has always counted in the mortgage market. Brokers who worked through the financial crisis, the Covid pandemic, the Liz Truss mini-Budget and cost-of-living...

Housing reform needs a thriving private rental sector, not just a thriving sales and purchase market

One of the most encouraging developments over recent weeks has been the renewed focus on improving the homebuying and selling process. The Government's plans to...

The economics of developing the next generation of advisers

Over the past couple of decades, I have worked alongside literally thousands of AR and DA firms, from businesses employing one or two advisers...

Is Andy Burnham the New Messiah or just Starmer with better eyebrows?

What a damning indictment of Labour that Andy Burnham appears to be strolling towards the leadership in what looks less like a contest and...

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...

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