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Scottish Widows appoints protection director

Scottish Widows has appointed Jackie Leiper to the newly created role of protection director. She...

Bank of Ireland UK partners with Alzheimer’s Society

Bank of Ireland UK has announced that the Alzheimer’s Society will be its new...

Roma Finance unveils 0.75% bridging rate

Roma Finance has introduced a new 'special spring' rate of 0.75% per month and...

Housing wealth to fill gap left by pension income

A new report from the Equity Release Council has said that wealth accumulated by...

MPs call to end dominance of big homebuilding firms

The parliamentary Communities and Local Government Committee has concluded that the dominance of large volume...

Rise in importance of the Bank of Mum and Dad

The 'bank of Mum and Dad' will lend over £6.5 billion in 2017, up...

Slowing in annual growth in consumer borrowing

The British Bankers' Association (BBA) has reported that consumer credit growth was 6.1% in March,...

Pepper cuts non-conforming residential rates

Pepper Homeloans has cuts 30-month, two and five-year fixed rates in its non-conforming residential mortgage product...

The Skipton appoints IRM

The Skipton Building Society has added Rachael Hunnisett to its team of intermediary regional managers (IRMs). Hunnisett has...

IMLA predicts 6% market growth this year

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) believes this year the mortgage market will achieve the highest...

10% rise in RBS gross mortgage lending

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has reported a profit of £259 million for the...

Most affordable places to buy revealed

Kingston-upon-Hull is the most affordable city in the country, with 92% of properties currently for...

Annual house price growth at weakest pace for nearly four years

House prices recorded their second consecutive monthly fall in April, while the annual rate...

CSC Loans appoints marketing manager

CSC Loans has recruited Susan Roberts to the role of marketing manager. Roberts spent the last seven...
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Commonhold and Leasehold Reform

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...

Don’t rein me in

For many years, major financial institutions and large retailers have understood the benefits of presenting their customers with complementary products alongside their core offering. Banks...

More questions now surround the home moving digital journey

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has published its highly anticipated Home Buying and Selling Reform Roadmap, representing the most aggressive...

Stability has value: why the latest Bank Base Rate hold matters

The Bank of England's decision to maintain Bank Base Rate (BBR) at 3.75% may not have generated the excitement that often accompanies a rate...

If you motivate an idiot you just get stupid things done quicker

There's a lot of excitement about artificial intelligence in the mortgage industry right now. Nearly nine in 10 mortgage brokers want technology to play...

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Later Life

more2life urges FCA to mandate signposting of all later life lending products

more2life chief executive Dave Harris has called on the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to...
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Residential transactions up 17% in May despite ongoing uncertainty

UK residential property transactions rose 17% in May 2026 compared with the same month...
Buy-to-let

Paragon Bank launches £1,000 cashback deal

Paragon Bank is offering £1,000 cashback across 21 products within its buy-to-let mortgage range. The...
near prime

Atom bank launches 95% LTV near prime mortgages

Atom bank has launched a 95% LTV near prime range and reduced rates across...

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