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L&G Mortgage Club unveils Pepper exclusives

Pepper Homeloans has launched a range of two-year fixed rates starting from 2.40%, exclusively via...

Small deposit buyers continue to grow market share

Borrowers with a deposit of 15% or smaller made up 20.5% of the market...

Over-50s facing financial services age discrimination

Over 50s insurer SunLife People has found that people aged 50 and over are...

Source powers SimplyBiz comparison sites

Source Insurance has worked with SimplyBiz Group’s website solution service, NextGen, to create a joint...

TMW cuts two-year buy-to-let rates

The Mortgage Works (TMW) has cut rates on selected two-year buy-to-let fixed rate mortgages by 0.15 percentage...

Buy to Let Club partners with Precise Mortgages

Buy to Let Club has teamed up with Precise Mortgages to offer its members an...

Mortgage lending up at the Mansfield

The Mansfield Building Society has reported a 3.8% growth in mortgage assets in 2016...

Brokers expect development finance demand rise

A broker sentiment survey, carried out in January this year by specialist lender United...

ARLA fights letting agent fee ban

ARLA Propertymark (Association of Residential Letting Agents) has claimed that the government’s proposed ban...

LendInvest expands academy schedule

LendInvest is launching the LendInvest Property Development Academy in four more cities around the...

Vida Homeloans cuts buy-to-let mortgage rates

Vida Homeloans has cut its two-year tracker, two-year fixed and five-year fixed rates on...

Aldermore chooses its charity for 2017

Aldermore employees have chosen the stillbirth and neonatal death charity Sands as their Charity of...

15% increase in Aegon UK life payments

Aegon UK paid out 98% of all life claims in 2016 to 663 families and...

Rise in use of ‘bank of mum and dad’

The proportion of first-time buyers relying on inherited wealth or loans from the ‘bank...

COMMENT

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...

Latest news

Mortgage Advice Bureau hires new group CFO

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

OMS launches protection referral partnership with The Insurance Surgery

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

Omni Protect appoints Richard Waters as head of strategic partnerships

Omni Protect, Fintel’s whole of market protection club, has announced the appointment of Richard...

Redwood Bank awarded top green accreditation

Redwood Bank has been recognised for its continued commitment to sustainability after achieving the...

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