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FSE Wales seminar schedule revealed

The full seminar programme for Financial Services Expo (FSE) Wales has been published. FSE Wales will...

Hinckley & Rugby goes live on MortgageApply

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has become one of the first lenders to...

Strong growth in remortgaging in April

April saw new homeowner mortgages up 36% and buy-to-let remortgages up 32.4% compared to...

BTL mortgage rates continuing to fall

Research from online mortgage broker Property Master shows a number of popular buy-to-let fixed...

Complete FS bolsters residential and buy-to-let teams

Specialist packager Complete FS has appointed new staff members to its residential and buy-to-let...

Hampshire Trust Bank completes £1.2m bridging facility in eight days

Property developer Centaur Group has secured a £1.2m development exit facility from Hampshire Trust...

SLP reform “doesn’t go far enough”

Anti-money laundering verification platform, SmartSearch, has welcomed the news that the UK government is...

25% of FTBs refused a mortgage when first applied

89% of prospective first time buyers think it is difficult to get on the...

PFS issue new pension transfer good practice guide

The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has issued an updated ‘good practice guide’ covering transfers...

House prices nearly treble since Scotland last in World Cup

The average house price since Scotland last took part in the World Cup has...

Death notification service introduced

UK Finance has announced that a new service enabling people to report the death...

ONS: house prices up 1.2% month-on-month

The Office of National Statistics has reported that in April, house prices rose on...

United Trust Bank increases second charge maximum loan size

United Trust Bank (UTB) has increased the maximum amount it will lend on a...

The Loan Partnership to distribute Vida seconds range

Vida Homeloans has added The Loan Partnership to its second charge master broker panel. The...
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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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Swap rates fall but funding risks remain, warns Moneyfacts

In a week that saw more than 20 lenders reduce their fixed mortgage rates,...
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Growing calls for government to overhaul Stamp Duty for FTBs

Mortgage industry figures are urging the government to review stamp duty for first-time buyers...
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L&G launches later life lending campaign

L&G has launched a later life lending campaign featuring short documentary-style films highlighting the...
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West Brom reduces rates by up to 0.18%

West Brom Building Society has reduced rates across its two-year fixed purchase mortgage range,...

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