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House prices grow by 35% in areas with top performing state schools

Lloyds Bank research has established that house price growth in areas with top performing...

Wonga goes into administration

Wonga Group Limited and WDFC UK Limited (Wonga) have placed themselves into administration. ...

Brokers back Accord review tool

Accord Mortgages has revealed that its own online review generator has been used more...

Platform unveils new 95% LTV range

Platform is to launch a range of 95% LTV mortgages on Monday (3 September). The...

Year-on-year mortgage activity remains steady

The Bank of England has reported that households borrowed an extra £3.2 billion secured...

The Ipswich to consider investment income and pension expenditure

The Ipswich Building Society has revised its lending criteria for applicants with investment income...

Estate agents seeing value of equity release adviser partnerships

Key Partnerships has claimed that estate agents are increasingly valuing the potential of equity...

Newcastle Intermediaries unveils joint mortgage sole proprietor range

Newcastle Intermediaries has introduced a range of intergenerational joint mortgage sole proprietor products, available...

Sales to FTBs at eight-month high

NAEA Propertymark has revealed that, in July, the number of properties available per estate...

HL Partnership promotes RIO lending

Mortgage and protection network HL Partnership believes that the launch of Retirement Interest Only...

The Marsden simplifies expat offering

The Marsden Building Society has simplified its expat residential range, reducing it from seven...

South West of England has fastest rising rents

Rents in the South West of England grew faster than anywhere else in the...

Reward funds nursery acquisition

The Go Wild Bury Private Day Nursery & Creche is now operating under new...

NatWest announces widespread rate changes

NatWest is introducing rate changes to its core and semi-exclusive ranges of residential and...
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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...

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...

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Solo first-time buyers face almost a decade of saving before they can buy

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Redwood Bank strengthens underwriting team with senior appointment

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