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FSE Wales: spread the equity release message

Dean Mirfin of Key Retirement told the audience at Wednesday's Financial Services Expo (FSE)...

FSE Wales: FCA should study limited panel networks

A panel at Wednesday's Financial Services Expo (FSE) Wales, believed that the FCA’s ongoing...

FSE Wales: wrong to raise bank rate now

Adrian Moloney of OneSavings Bank believes that the ‘devil will be in the detail’...

Only portfolio landlords benefit from limited company structure

Buy-to-let investors could see their income cut by £1,000 each year by purchasing through...

Annual house price growth edges up to 3.1%

The Nationwide Building Society has reported a rebounding of house prices in June, with...

The Mortgage Lender introduces Premier Panel 

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has created a Premier Panel of specialist distributors who will...

L&G and My Home Move in Help to Buy initiative

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced an initiative with My Home Move to...

LV= restructure sees Perks become MD

LV has restructured its life business to bring its protection, retirement solutions and heritage...

Parents sacrificing retirement plans to help FTBs

Aldermore's latest quarterly First Time Buyer Index has found that 22% of aspiring first...

Octane Capital expands risk team

Octane Capital has recruited Gemma Salousti to its risk team as senior credit manager. She...

New HTB and new build rates at Kensington

Kensington Mortgages has unveiled its new Help to Buy range. The lender originally announced...

Pepper cuts core mortgage rates

Pepper Homeloans has cut its shorter term fixed rates by up to 0.95 percentage...

CML: digital change raising borrower expectations

New research from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML),  Digital Change and Mortgage Borrowers, says...

The Skipton appoints London intermediary relationship manager

The Skipton Building Society has appointed Tracey Nash to its intermediary manager team. She has...

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...

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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...

Broker optimism grows as sub-4% rates edge closer

A series of mortgage rate cuts from lenders this week has sparked optimism among...

Renters face higher costs amid strong demand

Two in three (63%) recent movers ended up paying more rent than planned, as...

ModaMortgages cuts rates across limited-edition BTL range

ModaMortgages has announced a reprice of its limited-edition buy-to-let range, with rate reductions across...

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