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Remortgage advice for parents of top earning graduates

Parents could save their graduate children over £30,000 in interest by remortgaging to pay...

My Care Consultant becomes LLA Ambassador

The Later Life Academy (LLA), the commercial and training organisation for later life advisers,...

Builders slam idea of Irish ‘hard border’

A hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic would be damaging to the...

House price growth slows

Annual house price growth slowed in September 2017, according to the latest house price...

Brits cutting back in advance of Brexit impact

A new report from Nationwide Current Accounts, Base Rate, Brexit and Bills, has looked into the financial...

Kuflink Bridging expands underwriting team

Kuflink Bridging has announced the appointments of Richard Clare and Stuart Boag to its underwriting...

Robo-advice largest fear for brokers

49% of brokers believe robo-advice and technology are the biggest threat to their business in...

SimplyBiz to host learning and development events

SimplyBiz has published details of this year’s second round of learning and development events,...

Together holds annual charity golf days

Specialist lender Together held two golf days last week to raise funds for Manchester...

LBG acquires Zurich pension and savings business

Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) is to acquire Zurich’s UK workplace pensions and savings business...

More larger loan FTB deals available

The latest quarterly AmTrust Mortgage Loan to Value (LTV) tracker has revealed that average...

Should there be a formal lender-client contact agreement?

JLM Mortgage Services has queried whether the time is now right for lenders to enter...

UK Finance reports August activity pick-up

UK Finance has stated that first-time buyers borrowed £5.7 billion in August, 16% more than...

Knowledge Bank sees almost 12,000 criteria searches

Knowledge Bank has revealed that, in the month since its launch, brokers have conducted...
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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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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...
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...
Appointments

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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