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The Nationwide cuts two-year tracker rates

The Nationwide Building Society is reducing rates on selected two-year tracker mortgage products by...

Accord launches Client Hub for brokers

Accord Mortgages has unveiled an interactive website designed to support brokers during discussions with...

Life providers increasingly requiring email addresses

LifeQuote says it will support advisers whose clients do not have an email address,...

Remortgaging bounces back from post-Brexit low

LMS has reported that the value of remortgage lending rose by 23% from £5.5...

London unaffordable for Generation Rent

Couples who are renting and wanting to start a family in London would need...

TBMC to offer Kensington deals

TBMC has appointed Kensington onto its lending panel. It will now offer all of Kensington’s...

RBS to raise capital following stress test failings

Three banks were found by the Bank of England to have capital inadequacies following...

TMA wants lender transparency over product transfers

TMA mortgage club is urging lenders to report when they approach borrowers ahead of the...

Mortgage approvals hold steady

The number of mortgage approvals was largely flat between September and October, falling by...

Accord cuts BTL rates and removes processing fee

Accord Mortgages has made buy-to-let rate reductions of up to 0.20 percentage points. In addition, landlords will...

Castle Trust acquires point of sale business

Castle Trust Capital has confirmed that it is to acquire Omni Capital Retail Finance (OCRF). The point of...

NAEA reveals national conference line-up

The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) has revealed that Sally Bundock, business and financial journalist...

IMLA sees 2016 membership “surge”

Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) members have voted to retain the organisation’s chairman and...

BoE: rise in October mortgage lending

The Bank of England has reported that in October lending secured on dwellings increased by...
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Artificial Intelligence

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...

Hobson’s Choice: Which root canal treatment would you prefer, Sir?

Now that Andy Pandy from ‘oop norf’ is de facto the Prime Minister elect and will shortly be choosing the colour scheme of No...

Buy-to-let: reality versus a much-peddled narrative

Every few months, it seems, another report emerges suggesting buy-to-let no longer stacks up as an investment proposition. The headlines are often dramatic, the...

A week of progress and reassurance

The past week has brought further reassurance for borrowers. With the Bank of England holding the base rate as expected and inflation remaining steady...

ABS 2026 review: Economic factors stemming growth

As the Global ABS conference ended there was no doubt that it was a huge success, with official numbers being confirmed at 5,500 attendees,...

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