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Brits’ property inheritance plans revealed

A new survey has found that 36% of people across the UK will be...

Street’s Northview Group successor revealed

Craig McKinlay is to join the Northview Group as its sales and marketing director. McKinlay...

Housing market activity “in Goldilocks territory”

UK Finance has estimated that overall gross mortgage lending in August was £24.2 billion,...

Duo join Uinsure

GI provider Uinsure has made two appointments. Ian Ballinger joins as head of key accounts...

General & Medical added to The Right PMI panel

The Right PMI & Healthcare, the specialist PMI division of The Right Mortgage &...

Promise partners with West One Loans for seconds

Promise Solutions has added West One formally to its sourcing platform and made the...

iPipeline sees 31% rise in new business protection applications

iPipeline has reported a 31% increase in the number of completed new business protection...

London Trading Standards tackles rogue letting agents

As part of London Trading Standards Week, representatives from 15 departments are to visit...

Co-op Insurance appoints new chair

Peter Hubbard has been appointed as chair of the board of Co-op Insurance. His has...

Pepper to rebrand and launch broker portal

Pepper Homeloans is to change its name to Pepper Money and introduce a new...

Accord: free legals still popular

Accord Mortgages has stated that the majority of its remortgage borrowers are choosing free...

Barclays rolls out further advance proc fee

Barclays Mortgages has introduced a procuration payment of 0.30% on all new residential and...

TMW unveils new portfolio landlord criteria

The Mortgage Works (TMW) has introduced new requirements for portfolio lending in response to new...

Together secures new £275m funding

Together has announced the successful completion of its debut public RMBS (residential mortgage-backed security)...

COMMENT

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...

Latest news

Together cuts fixed rates and expands criteria

Specialist lender Together has reduced rates across its fixed-rate product range and announced it...

Bank lending to smaller property investors falls 14%

The value of lending from UK-regulated banks to small and medium-sized property investment businesses...

L&G names winners of 15th Business Quality Awards

Legal & General has announced the winners of its 15th annual Business Quality Awards. The...

MT Finance latest firm to offer World Cup time off

As mortgage firms gear up for England’s 1am World Cup clash against Mexico on...

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