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House prices up 0.2% in June

The Nationwide Building Society has reported a slight increase in house price growth in June. Prices...

AMI slams FCA over fees implementation

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has criticised the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) over...

Best May for remortgaging in eight years

Monthly gross remortgage lending totalled £5bn in May 2016, according to LMS, up by...

FTBs paying record amounts for first home

While the wider mortgage market has been fluctuating because of the EU referendum, First-time...

Openwork reports profit for fourth consecutive year

Openwork has posted a profit for the fourth consecutive year, with an increase in...

SimplyBiz Mortgages expands secured loan panel

SimplyBiz Mortgages has announced the addition of Prestige Finance, part of the One Savings...

Hitachi Capital in NACFB membership promotion

Hitachi Capital Business Finance brokers have been give the opportunity to receive £250 off...

Nearly 76,000 sales lodged for registration in May

Land Registry has published the latest 'Price Paid Data', which includes details of more than 75,900 land...

New 50% LTV deals from Coventry for Intermediaries

Coventry for Intermediaries has introduced 50% LTV products across its residential and offset ranges. New...

Bristol house price growth outstripping London

Bristol has become the first city outside of the South East to see house...

Skipton Intermediaries offering ‘day one’ valuations

Skipton Intermediaries has launched 'day one' mortgage valuations on all of its mortgage applications. This...

TFC partners with TenetLime

TFC Homeloans has joined forces with TenetLime to offer Tenet’s appointed representatives increased access...

Shawbrook admits asset finance “irregularities”

Shawbrook Group has reported issues with its asset finance lending and the departure of...

Decade of credit card debt for many Brits

MoneySuperMarket has reported that 37% of Britons have been saddled with credit card debt for up to...

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

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...

Suffolk BS tops £800m in mortgage assets after strong 2025 growth

Suffolk Building Society has passed £800m of mortgage assets for the first time after...

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...

Foundation returns with revised buy-to-let and residential mortgage range

Foundation has returned to the market with a revised product range across both buy-to-let...

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