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Decade of super-low interest rates reached

Thursday marked the 10th anniversary of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee last...

TSB cuts five-year remortgage rates

TSB Bank has reduced the interest rate by 0.10 percentage points on the five-year...

Interest-only still issue for older homeowners

More 2 Life research has indicated that 41% of over 65 year olds with...

Improvement in home purchase fall-through rate

Home buyer Quick Move Now has reported that the number of house sales failing...

TML reduces selected five-year fixes 

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has cut its five-year fixed rate products in Tiers 1-6...

Purplebricks’ claims “misleading”

Online estate agent Purplebricks has been told it by the Advertising Standard Authority (ASA)...

PRA reviewing consumer credit lending following growing concerns

The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has undertaken a review of consumer credit lending, examining...

Leeds members donate almost £25k to Marie Curie  

A charity scheme supported by Leeds Building Society’s members has raised £24,970 for Marie...

Pension providers team up over self-employed enrolment

Aviva and Royal London have joined forces to produce a recommendation of how to...

Millennials look to be smart with their mortgages

92% of 18-34 year olds have a repayment mortgage deal, according to research from...

Equity release rates continue to fall

Fixed lifetime mortgage interest rates fell for the seventh consecutive month in June 2017,...

FCA consults over consumer credit staff incentives

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published proposals on how consumer credit firms...

Ex-Ipswich CEO joins Teachers’ board

The Teachers Building Society has added Paul Winter to its board as a non-executive...

Former Deutsche Bank COO becomes MortgageGym adviser

Mortgage 'robo-adviser' MortgageGym.com has announced that Henry Ritchotte, former chief operating officer of Deutsche Bank...
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Kevin Tunnicliffe on ending the race to the bottom

This was always going to be a tricky interview. I’ve known Kevin Tunnicliffe, chief executive officer of Sort Group, which includes Sort Refer, for...

Beyond the Robo-Adviser: why the future of mortgages is ‘Human Plus’

The fintech industry is obsessing over a binary choice: the traditional human broker or the fully automated 'robo-adviser'. But as we navigate the complexities...

Ceasefire boosts sentiment more than mortgage market

What goes up must come down, but for mortgage rates the drop will be notably more gradual than the sharp increase triggered by the...

A surge today, but what comes next for advisers and conveyancing?

March has provided a very clear example of how quickly this market can move when lenders feel the need to take action, with widespread...

Technology adapts so you don’t have to

20 years ago, many brokerages looked and operated in very similar ways. Typically small, local business, many firms focused solely on standard residential mortgage...

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The Coventry cuts limited company buy-to-let rates for brokers

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