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House prices return to monthly growth

Average house prices saw a return to growth in November after several months of...

Gig economy workers need more protection options

So-called 'gig' economy workers juggle as many as two or more ‘gig’ jobs at...

The Right PMI add CS Healthcare to its PMI panel

The Right PMI & Healthcare has partnered with CS Healthcare to offer its advisers...

TSB pushes for soft credit checks to become the norm

70% of consumers do not know the difference between a soft and hard credit...

The Yorkshire appoints chief people officer

Yorkshire Building Society Group has appointed Susana Berlevy as its chief people officer. Originally from...

CA responds to home buying and selling ‘call for evidence’

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has issued its formal response to the DCLG’s ‘Call for...

Diverse Mortgage and Protection adopts Mortgage Brain

Diverse Mortgage and Protection has selected Mortgage Brain as its preferred partner for the...

Developers failing to refinance off expensive deals

Developers in the UK are wasting £20m a year on interest they don’t need...

LendInvest passes $1bn of capital under management

LendInvest has reported its best ever year of capital raising. Since the start of...

Mid-life savings crisis for UK workers

18% of UK workers in their fifties and sixties are unable to save anything...

Octane Capital partners with RHL for bespoke £5m deal

Octane Capital has completed a £4.9m two-year developer exit to a client of RHL. The...

London drags down the UK average rent

The second National Rent Review from Landbay has found that rents across the UK...

Second charge new business up 20%

The second charge mortgage market reported growth in October, with new business up 20%...

New product manager for Foundation Home Loans

Foundation Home Loans has appointed Tom Jacob as product manager. He joins from Pepper...
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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...

Build, baby, build? Well we will need to fund more than the usual suspects

There was a noticeable sense of optimism at UKREiiF this year. That may sound surprising given the economic headwinds of recent years, but the...

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market riding high

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market has created real value for customers – there’s no excuse to ignore it. When a UK borrower reaches 55,...

How small and medium-sized lenders can fix the origination headache

We are constantly told that to fix the mortgage journey, we need to rip everything out and start again. That unless a lender replaces its...

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Mortgage repayments set to rise for 5m households by 2028

More than five million households are projected to see their mortgage repayments increase by...
Homebuying

Buying costs outpace house prices threefold since 2019

The cost of buying a home has risen more than three times faster than...
Appointments

Nationwide appoints Kim Dickinson as intermediary product manager

Nationwide has appointed Kim Dickinson as lead product manager for intermediaries. Dickinson brings a wealth...
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Metro Bank launches 100% LTV JBSP mortgage

Metro Bank has launched a 100% LTV Joint Borrower, Sole Proprietor (JBSP) mortgage. The mortgage...

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