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Conveyancing Association gets backing for leasehold campaign

Co-op Legal Services has backed the Conveyancing Association's (CA) campaign to reform the leasehold...

Parents spending £50k+ to live near top state school

Parents are willing to pay an average of £53,000 more to live in an...

Signs of optimism in homeowner aspirations

Homeowners are gradually starting to feel more optimistic about the time it will take...

The Teachers to lower SVR

The Teachers Building Society is to lower its Standard Variable Rate (SVR) by the...

NACFB Commercial Finance Expo to expand for 2017

The NACFB's Commercial Finance Expo (CFE) will to a larger venue at the NEC...

Virgin Money cuts BTL, H2B and residential rates

Virgin Money has made a number of rate reductions on selected products across its core...

Accord reduces remortgage rates

Accord Mortgages has cut remortgage rates by up to 0.15 basis points. The intermediary-only lender has...

CA vows to continue leasehold reform campaign

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has stated that it will continue with its campaign to...

Skipton International passes expat mortgage milestone

Skipton International has celebrated the completion of 500 buy-to-let mortgages for British expats. The Channel island-registered...

Paymentshield appoints Covéa Insurance

Paymentshield has appointed Covéa Insurance to provide the cover for two of its protection...

July remortgaging up a quarter month-on-month

Monthly gross remortgage lending was at its highest level for nearly eight years after reaching £7.1bn...

Pink & First Complete gain access to HSBC deals

First Complete and Pink have embarked upon a distribution arrangement with HSBC that will...

Ingard adds mutual pair to lender panel

Ingard has added National Counties and the Family Building Society to its panel of lenders....

Call for protection players to work together

First Complete is calling on the insurance industry to improve and grow the protection market...
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Buy-to-let

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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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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Parental support for adult children is reshaping retirement plans

Three in five parents with children aged over 18 are providing financial support, with...
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LISA payouts near £140m as industry warns against disrupting first-time buyer support

The Lifetime ISA delivered almost £140m in government bonuses last year, as industry figures...
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Mortgage borrowing rises as approvals edge higher in February

Mortgage borrowing and approvals both increased in February, although activity remains close to recent...

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