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Bank of Ireland UK launches new build pilot

Bank of Ireland UK has announced the launch of an exclusive new build pilot...

New holiday let product from Together

Together has created a new holiday let product in response to demand from professional...

FP Show to host later life lending and GDPR speeches

The Finance Professional Show, which takes place on 8 November, has announced the addition of...

The Hinckley & Rugby introduces lower BTL reference rate

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has introduced a new online buy-to-let calculator for...

Coventry for Intermediaries to pay product transfer proc fees

Coventry for Intermediaries will pay a proc fee of 0.30% for residential product transfers...

Continued rise in drawdown customers

The Equity Release Council has reported that over-55s withdrew a total of £824 million...

Save £480k with a 60-minute commute

Lloyds Bank has calculated that people living an hour away from London and making the...

Bank of Mum & Dad unlikely to get money back

New research from Prudential has found that, on average, those who have lent money to...

North West is home to fastest rising rents in the UK

Your Move's England & Wales Buy to Let Index has found that most areas...

Housing market confidence at lowest level in five years

Halifax has reported that confidence in UK house prices has fallen to its lowest level...

SMEs split over hard or soft Brexit

The latest SME Confidence Tracker from business funder Bibby Financial Services has looked at...

The Right Mortgage partners with CI Expert

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network is to provide its members with discounted access...

Metro Bank reduces BTL and residential rates

Metro Bank has made changes to both its residential and buy-to-let product ranges. Rates for...

Demand for rental accommodation up 10% month on month

ARLA Propertymark (Association of Residential Letting Agents) has reported that, after several months of...
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Homebuying

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...

A new PM brings a new opportunity to rethink housing policy

Politics, as it seems to do in recent times, has moved at remarkable speed over the last couple of weeks. In what feels like...

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Training

The Right Mortgage appoints new head of academy

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has appointed Rebecca Egerton as head of The...
Homebuying

Stamp Duty could be holding back 300,000 home movers

Stamp Duty costs could be preventing more than 300,000 owner-occupied homes from coming to...
networks

National Friendly joins Primis panel

National Friendly's range of protection products are now available to advisers across the Primis...
Brokers

‘AI challenges intermediation,’ warns FCA

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today released its long-awaited Mills Review, which sets...

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