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Mortgage book up 3.7% at the Nottingham

The Nottingham Building Society has reported that gross lending in the six months to...

Wesleyan chair joins 30% Club

Wesleyan has announced that its chair, Nathan Moss, has joined the 30% Club, a...

The Coventry publishes half-year results

The Coventry Building Society has reported net lending of £1.5 billion for the first...

Sutherland Mortgage Services moves into UK market

Sutherland Mortgage Services has announced Gatehouse Bank as its first UK client. The Sharia-compliant bank...

The Ipswich opens up remortgaging options for Help to Buy borrowers

The Ipswich Building Society has revealed that it will not count a borrower’s existing...

The Mortgage Lender appoints BDM

Louise Apollonio has joined The Mortgage Lender as business development manager for the North...

Sainsbury’s Bank ups selected mortgage rates

Sainsbury's Bank has made changes to a number of mortgage rates. Two-year fixed rate purchase...

UK Finance reveals mortgage product transfer data

UK Finance has published mortgage product transfer figures for the first time. 390,200 homeowners switched product...

New five-year fixes from the Skipton

The Skipton Building Society has unveiled two new residential products for purchase and remortgage...

Accord cuts buy-to-let rates

Accord Buy To Let has reduced rates across its mortgage range by up to...

Secure Trust Bank expands distribution

Secure Trust Bank Mortgages has expanded its distribution with Julian Harris Adviser Networks. Secure Trust...

Castle Trust appoints new telephone BDM

Castle Trust has appointed Steve Gregory as its new telephone business development manager (BDM)for...

The Skipton urges Lifetime ISA reprieve

The Skipton Building Society has called on the government to ignore the Treasury Select...

69% of BTL landlords choose to fix for five years

The second quarter of the year saw 93% of landlords financing buy-to-let property choose...
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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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Landlord sales slow following Renters’ Right Act

The share of homes listed for sale that were previously rented dropped to 9.2%...
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Knowledge Bank teams up with Brilliant Solutions for specialist lending cases

Knowledge Bank has formed a partnership with specialist mortgage packager Brilliant Solutions as demand...
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FCA urges firms to strengthen product design under Consumer Duty

The Financial Conduct Authority has highlighted examples of improved product governance under the Consumer...
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Validate appoints Louise Shute as managing director

Valuation specialist Validate has appointed Louise Shute as managing director as it continues to...

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