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Recovery in Central London office space leasing

The amount of Central London office space leased by businesses recovered from a pre-referendum drop to...

Q2 rise in bridging loan applications

The value of applications for bridging loans increased in the quarter ended 30 June 2016...

Property market contracting pre-Brexit

In July, house prices rose by £700, or 0.2%, to an average £293,318, according...

Property Butler offers conveyancing app

Property Butler, the conveyancing and concierge service for estate agents, has launched a mobile...

L&G to sell Cofunds and IPS

Legal & General Group has announced the sale of Cofunds, its investment platform for...

FCA outlines new rules over GI renewals

The Financial Conduct Authority has published a policy statement - PS16/21: Increasing transparency and...

AIG introduces Key3 critical illness cover

AIG Life has launched Key3, critical illness insurance which pays a lump sum upon...

Shawbrook Commercial extends E-AIP service

Shawbrook’s commercial mortgages team has announced that the E-AIP platform is now available for...

FTBs continuing to drive house purchase lending

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that in June, home-owners borrowed £12.3bn...

Financial plight of millennials revealed

35% of Britain’s 'millennials' (those aged 18-35s) say their generation has been priced out of...

Millions ‘saving’ on property surveys

New research from Churchill Home Insurance has found that over seven million UK homeowners...

Nationwide offering its lowest ever 10-year fix

The Nationwide Building Society has made cuts to the majority of its fixed rate mortgages by...

CCJs at highest level for a decade

Second charge mortgage lender Equifinance says the continuing rise in the number of county...

West One Loans’ co-founder quits

Duncan Kreeger of West One Loans is leaving the business that he co-founded. Kreeger (pictured)...
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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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Mortgage borrowing rises as approvals edge higher in February

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

Previously flooded homes face insurance premiums more than double UK average

Homeowners in properties that have previously flooded are paying 121% more for home insurance...
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FCA and ICO tell firms GDPR is no excuse for failing vulnerable customers

A joint statement from the Financial Conduct Authority and the Information Commissioner’s Office has...
Technology

Together adds nCino Banking Advisor to lending operations

Together has adopted nCino Banking Advisor as it looks to improve efficiency in processing...

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