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The Leeds improves new build criteria

The Leeds Building Society has made changes to its new build criteria by widening the range...

Skipton accepting Red Cross Manchester Emergency Fund donations

The Skipton Building Society is making it possible for people wanting to donate money...

CA welcomes political backing for home buying process changes

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has welcomed the recent political endorsement of its plans to modernise the...

Monthly dip in gross mortgage lending

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has estimated that gross mortgage lending reached £18.4...

Network looks at duty of care issue

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network's latest bi-annual national training event saw a discussion...

Rise in consumer credit growth

The British Bankers' Association (BBA) latest high street banking data shows that consumer credit...

London sees large drop in rental supply

The number of properties managed per ARLA member branch increased marginally in April, with...

Over 50s: debt is part of modern life

More than half of people over 50 believe that debt is a part of...

The Skipton cuts Help to Buy rates

The Skipton Building Society has cut rates on the majority of its Help to Buy products,...

Rates down, proc fees up at Bluestone Mortgages

Bluestone Mortgages has made a number of changes to its offering. It has launched new fixed...

Just Mortgages unveils broker training academy

Just Mortgages has introduced a training academy, following two pilots earlier in the year.  The...

The Leeds partners with parkrun

The Leeds Building Society has announced a new, three-year partnership with parkrun, a volunteer-led, not-for-profit...

Step One Finance cuts rates

Step One Finance has announced new rates for its product range as well as...

Brokers still expect house price growth

65% of property and asset finance brokers expect the average house price to increase...

COMMENT

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...

With great power comes great responsibility

There has been a huge amount in the press about the “feudal” system of leasehold and how the government’s revitalised commonhold will fix all...

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Average cost of moving hits £13,018

The average cost of moving home has reached £13,018 for those buying and selling...

Equity Release Supermarket calls for greater collaboration

The Equity Release Supermarket (ERS), part of the Equity Release Group (ERG), has called...

Redwood Bank launches valuation fee cashback offer

The new valuation cashback offer gives landlords 100% of their valuation fee back on...

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...

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