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LMS: affordability worsening and rates expected to rise

The number of people remortgaging year-on-year in February rose by 35% to almost 44,000 according...

CSF hires development finance director

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has appointed Michael Fisher as development finance director. The business intends to...

New membership categories for Conveyancing Association

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has detailed a number of new membership categories and provided an...

Atom Bank matches five-year deals to two-year fixes

For a limited time, all new Atom Bank mortgage customers will be able to...

Relatives behind half of FTB deposits

Over half of first time buyers are reliant upon family money to raise the deposit...

Aldermore refreshes commercial mortgage offering

Aldermore has revised its commercial investment and commercial owner-occupied mortgage range. There is now a...

Fixed and tracker rate cuts from the Nationwide

The Nationwide Building Society has cut rates on selected two and five-year fixed and...

CML: home buying up slightly

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported that in February, home buyers borrowed...

Together overhauls bridging application process

Together has made a number of changes to its bridging product range and overhauled...

Record loan amount for Borro

Borro has closed a £6,000,000 loan.  A small collection of blue chip post-war and contemporary...

Moody’s upgrades Skipton’s credit rating

The Skipton Building Society has had its long term local and foreign currency bank deposit...

TMA Mortgage Club partners with Twenty7Tec

TMA Mortgage Club is now offering its club members access to Twenty7Tec's systems. Twenty7Tec Group is...

Home moving being blocked by finance issues

11% of mortgage customers - equivalent to around 1.2 million homeowners - have given...

Directors of debt lead provider banned

A pair of directors of Signed and Sealed Marketing, which provided leads to debt...
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COMMENT

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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Ageas teams up with Source Insurance

Ageas UK has joined Source's Insurance panel, expanding access to its home insurance products...
Homebuying

Buyer demand falls 15% year-on-year

Political uncertainty and higher borrowing costs have led to a 15% year-on-year fall in...
Appointments

Mortgage Advice Bureau hires new group CFO

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has named Jo Stent as its next group chief financial...
Technology

OMS launches protection referral partnership with The Insurance Surgery

One Mortgage System (OMS), the CRM and loan origination platform for intermediaries and lenders,...

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