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Newcastle Intermediaries cuts first-time buyer rates

Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced the rates of its mortgages with a maximum loan to...

Paradigm unveils compliance offering to DAs

Paradigm Mortgage Services is offering a free basic mortgage and protection compliance package to any...

Minority of landlords willing to house universal credit recipients

Only 20% of landlords are willing to let to tenants in receipt of housing...

Leeds’ risk team clean local farm

Staff from the Leeds Building Society’s risk team used their volunteering leave at Temple...

The Source partners with L&G for landlord insurance

General insurance provider Source Insurance has added Legal & General to its landlord property...

TSB increases 2 and 5-year remortgage fixed rates

TSB has increased fixed rates by up to 0.20 percentage points on three of...

TML changes family gifted equity and contractor criteria

The Mortgage Lender (TML) will now accept family gifted equity applications up to 75%...

Newcastle Intermediaries cuts mortgage rates

Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced a number of products across its range and has introduced...

Smart Money unveils unregulated business arm

Smart Money Ltd has launched Smart Money Finance for all its unregulated business activity. Smart...

£375bn available to over-55s via equity release

Retirement Advantage has claimed that the third quarter of 2017 saw a £2bn rise...

Millennials not ignoring pension planning

Millennials are putting pension saving high up their list of workplace priorities, according to...

Attendance up at MBE London

The Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has reported that attendance at its London Barbican show...

Sort Group appoints sales & relationship director

Sort Group has appointed Jessica Szczelkun to the newly created role of sales &...

Purplebricks rapped over lack of fee clarity

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that online estate agents Purplebricks did not...
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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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National Friendly joins Primis panel

National Friendly's range of protection products are now available to advisers across the Primis...
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‘AI challenges intermediation,’ warns FCA

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

Burnham’s property tax could hit mortgage lending, warns Maskells

A proposed proportional property tax backed by Andy Burnham could hit mortgage lending, tighten...
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Des Moore joins Suffolk BS as non-executive director 

Des Moore, former Cumberland Building Society chief executive officer, will join the Suffolk Building...

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