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Co-op Insurance selects commercial partner

Co-op Insurance has chosen to introduce commercial insurance business to Lloyd’s insurance broker, Miles...

Variable mortgages causing UK market volatility

Nottingham Trent University has claimed that research shows the UK's property market is “highly volatile”...

Halifax: easing in annual house price growth

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to August were 0.7%...

Seconds market boosting home improvements

Home improvements were behind around one in three second charge loans taken out in the...

Kensington unveils new mortgage range

Kensington has revamped its mortgage range, offering lower pricing, a specialist new build proposition and new...

PPI claims ad deemed misleading

PPI claims firm www.thefairtradepractice.co.uk has had an ad banned by the Advertising Standards Authority...

Clever Lending to distribute Bluestone Mortgages deals

Clever Lending has joined the Bluestone Mortgages panel as a distributor of its first...

Legal & General Conveyancing Services launches

Legal & General Mortgage Club has launched Legal & General Conveyancing Services, which offers...

UTB added to Complete FS’s second charge panel

Complete FS has announced the addition of United Trust Bank (UTB) to its second...

Record number of people falling into IHT net

The proportion of properties sold in England and Wales above the £325,000 Inheritance Tax...

New remortgage fixes from the Chelsea

The Chelsea Building Society has unveiled a new range of two and five-year fixed...

More 2 Life hires head of operations

More 2 Life has announced the appointment of Steven Dodd to its operations team. Dodd...

The Source includes commercial in rewards programme

Source Insurance has extended the qualifying range of its broker loyalty programme to also include all...

New low deals from Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks

Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks have launched a range of new mortgages, including their best ever...

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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...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

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Energy-efficient homes ‘may carry higher climate risks’

Some of the UK’s more energy-efficient homes could face greater long-term exposure to flooding...

New towns plan may help supply but risks falling short, says former RICS chair

The government’s announcement of seven proposed new towns has been broadly welcomed as a...

Buy-to-let mortgage rates rise as landlords face fresh cost pressures

Buy-to-let mortgage rates have risen sharply this month, while landlords are also facing further...

Virgin Money to take mortgage application systems offline for five days

Virgin money has announced that its Virgin Money and Clydesdale online application platforms will...

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