News

Record quarter for equity release lending

Latest industry data from the Equity Release Council reveals that homeowners over the age...

Accord announces new fixed rates

Accord Mortgages has unveiled a range of fixed-rate remortgage deals. The intermediary-only lender has launched new remortgage...

ABI publishes guide to HIV & life insurance

A new guide has been produced by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) to inform...

L&G reveals live conference details

Legal & General Mortgage Club will be holding a one-off live conference in London...

New two-year deals from N&P

The Norwich & Peterborough Building Society (N&P) has unveiled a range of two-year fixed rate...

NAEA: we remain upbeat despite Brexit

The National Association of Estate Agents' (NAEA) June Housing Market has revealed that immediately following...

Ultimate Finance hires senior South East regional director

Ultimate Finance Group has appointed Simon Adcock as senior regional director for the South...

New 1.25% discounted deal from the Teachers

The Teachers Building Society has launched a new 1.25% discounted variable rate 'summer special'...

Leeds BS three-year fix for SimplyBiz Mortgages

SimplyBiz Mortgages has launched a new three-year fixed rate product from the Leeds Building...

June saw remortgage lending fall year-on-year

LMS's monthly tracker has found there were 32,873 remortgage loans taken out in June,...

Lloyds to axe 3,000 jobs and close 200 branches

Lloyds Banking Group is to increase its cost savings target for the end of...

Little change in annual rate of house price growth

The Nationwide Building Society has revealed that house prices in the UK rose by...

Best places in England for FTBs revealed

Online estate agent eMoov.co.uk has published its latest analysis of the property market in...

The Skipton cuts Help to Buy rates

The Skipton Building Society has reduced rates by up to 0.20 percentage points on...

COMMENT

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...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

Latest news

Rate rises squeeze demand as brokers lean on ‘needs-based’ borrowers

Rising mortgage costs driven by global uncertainty are beginning to weigh on borrower demand...

Finova Broker appoints Ben Radford to lead Broker Payments

Finova Broker has promoted Ben Radford to head of Finova Broker Payments, the mortgage...

Lloyds data glitch exposed details of up to 447,936 banking customers, MPs told

Up to 447,936 customers of Lloyds Banking Group were affected by a data breach...

Chancellor presses lenders to expand support for borrowers ahead of rate resets

The government has secured fresh commitments from major lenders to step up engagement with...

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