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BUDGET 2017: VAT threshold frozen

The VAT threshold was kept at £85,000 in today’s Autumn Budget. The chancellor told...

BUDGET 2017: Stamp Duty abolished for most FTBs

The Chancellor has abolished stamp duty for the majority of first time buyer purchases. In...

BUDGET 2017: Hammond’s speech in full

Mr Deputy Speaker I report today on an economy that continues to grow, continues to...

BUDGET 2017 – as it happened

Newcastle Intermediaries cuts BTL and self-employed rates

Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced rates within its buy-to-let and self-employed mortgage range. Buy-to-let remortgage  deals...

Zurich introduces life cover ‘selfie’ app

Zurich has launched FaceQuote, a 'selfie' app to urge more people to think about and...

New website from the Cambridge

The Cambridge Building Society has unveiled its new website, developed following consultation and research...

The Skipton shakes up mortgage range

The Skipton Building Society has introduced two new seven-year fixed rate residential mortgages. The seven-year...

The Mansfield adds fixed options to Versatility range

The Mansfield Building Society has added two new fixed rate residential products to its...

Together hires regional development director for Scotland

Together has appointed a new regional development director as it expands its distribution in...

Engage with ‘robo advice’, brokers told

Advisers have been urged to to embrace ‘robo advice’ in order to help retain...

Brightstar unveils new website

Brightstar Financial has launched a new website, which has been designed to make it easier...

Key Retirement teams up with live-in care provider

Key Retirement has partnered with live-in care provider Elder to grow the number of...

SME bosses fear lack of Budget backing

68% of bosses in small and medium sized businesses (SMEs), representing 3.74 million firms...
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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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Nationwide cuts mortgage rates across fixed and tracker range

Nationwide has cut mortgage rates across its fixed-rate range and reduced selected tracker products. The...
Technology

Top proptech providers join forces

Four of the UK’s leading Proptech providers – LMS, Landmark Information Group, InfoTrack and...
Buy-to-let

Landbay launches new remortgage AVM products

Buy-to-let lender, Landbay, has launched new premier remortgage AVM two-year fixed-rate products and reduced...
Second Charge

Second charge boost as industry veterans launch Flamingo Money

Two experienced specialist finance professionals have launched a new secured loans and second charge...

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