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Land Registry reveals latest price paid data

The Land Registry has published Price Paid Data for residential and commercial land and property sales in...

Cofunds and IPS acquisition completes

Legal & General Group has announced the completion of the sale of Cofunds and...

Merry Christmas!

Everyone here at BestAdvice would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas...

The Leeds supports Age UK Xmas campaign 

Customers are being asked to donate at Leeds Building Society branches this Christmas to...

ThinCats makes board-level appointments

Peer-to-peer lender ThinCats has appointed Jill Sandford and Damon Walford to the board of...

Peston and Hague confirmed for ARLA’s 2017 conference

The Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) has secured former Foreign Secretary and Leader...

Landlords increasingly opting for five-year fixes

Paragon Mortgages’ latest Financial Advisors Confidence Tracking (FACT) Index report reveals that fixed term...

OSB Group changes BTL affordability assessments

OneSavings Bank (OSB) will be implementing changes to its affordability assessments for all new...

CA updates Cyberfraud & Fraud Protocol

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has launched the latest version of its Cyberfraud and Fraud...

Uinsure collaborates with building societies

GI provider Uinsure has been selected by both the Melton Building Society and Mansfield...

Bluestone partners with PMS and Sesame

Bluestone Mortgages has announced a new distribution partnership with PMS Mortgage Club and Sesame...

Pensioners will increasingly rely on housing equity

Price of homes in England have risen at twice the rate of pensioner households’ disposable...

Lloyds to buy MBNA’s UK card business

Lloyds Banking Group has agreed to acquire MBNA Ltd (MBNA), a UK consumer credit...

New IRM at the Skipton

The Skipton Building Society has announced the appointment of Jonathan Dunn to its team of intermediary...

COMMENT

Mutual strength and the broker partnership

The mutual sector has always been associated with community purpose, local branches and a member-first approach that feels a little different to the wider...

First-time, accidental or professional? How the landlord profile is shifting in 2026

One of the most common misconceptions that people have about the buy-to-let market is that landlords are a single, uniform group. The reality is...

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Latest news

The Vernon hires internal BDM to expand intermediary reach

Vernon Building Society has appointed Damien Sabbaghe as intermediary business development manager as it...

Coventry trims first-time buyer and limited company buy-to-let rates

Coventry for intermediaries has cut selected mortgage rates for first-time buyers and limited company...

TRM adds to PMI team with supervision & development manager hire

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has appointed Gemma Penkethman as PMI supervision &...

Rental yields rise across England and Wales as buy-to-let market enters more volatile period

Rental yields increased annually in every region of England and Wales in the first...

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