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Worrying ignorance around interest rates

70% of Brits can't state what the currently Bank Rate is, according to new research...

Fluent Money Group ups recruitment

Second charge mortgage broker Fluent Money Group is continuing to expand its headcount. Fluent for Advisers,...

New London BDM for Pepper Money

Pepper Money has appointed Phil Quinn as business development manager (BDM) for London. Quinn...

Castle Trust introduces credit recovery BTL

Castle Trust Capital has unveiled a new range of mortgages aimed at landlords with...

Octane Capital completes £10m Hackney bridging loan

Octane Capital has completed a £10m bridging loan on a £20m asset to a client...

Together rescues landlord’s renovation project

Together has delivered funding in 24 hours to help a landlord to complete renovations...

Vernon BS added to Personal Touch panel

The Vernon Building Society has been appointed to Personal Touch’s mortgage panel.   The local society,...

Remortgage advice for parents of top earning graduates

Parents could save their graduate children over £30,000 in interest by remortgaging to pay...

My Care Consultant becomes LLA Ambassador

The Later Life Academy (LLA), the commercial and training organisation for later life advisers,...

Builders slam idea of Irish ‘hard border’

A hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic would be damaging to the...

House price growth slows

Annual house price growth slowed in September 2017, according to the latest house price...

Brits cutting back in advance of Brexit impact

A new report from Nationwide Current Accounts, Base Rate, Brexit and Bills, has looked into the financial...

Kuflink Bridging expands underwriting team

Kuflink Bridging has announced the appointments of Richard Clare and Stuart Boag to its underwriting...

Robo-advice largest fear for brokers

49% of brokers believe robo-advice and technology are the biggest threat to their business in...
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Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

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First-time buyers turning to side hustles to bridge deposit gap

Almost half of aspiring first-time buyers are using secondary income streams to help fund...
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Vida cuts residential rates and loosens criteria for self-employed and contractor borrowers

Vida has reduced selected residential mortgage rates by up to 106 basis points and...
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Iress adds AI underwriting tool to The Exchange in protection push

Iress has struck a deal with The Interesting Life Company to offer an AI-powered...
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Property firms still relying on manual checks as AI fraud risk grows

More than half of identity verification checks in UK finance and property businesses are...

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