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Accord cuts rate on 65% LTV fix

Accord Mortgages has cut rates on its 65% LTV fixed rate mortgages by up to 0.12 percentage...

£13bn Northern Rock mortgage sale completed

The £13 billion sale of former Northern Rock mortgages was completed yesterday, with the government...

NatWest and RBS to stop expat lending

NatWest and RBS will no longer offer mortgages to expatriates from 19 May. This will...

New anti-fraud protocol for conveyancers

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has introduced its Cyberfraud and Fraud Protocol which aims to...

Record asset finance quarter for United Trust Bank

United Trust Bank (UTB) has revealed that its asset finance team posted a record...

SMEs proactively looking for growth opportunities

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in UK are planning to invest for future growth,...

New external BDMs for Dragonfly

Dragonfly Property Finance has recruited Chris Holden and Lauren Gill as external business development...

Kent Reliance to lend to LLPs

Kent Reliance will now lend to clients who are looking to borrow through a...

Mortgage for Business upgrades BTL tool

Mortgages for Business has updated its online buy-to-let calculator and rate finder. Users can now search...

The Ipswich expands geographical availability

The Ipswich Building Society is extending five existing partnerships with SimplyBiz Mortgages, Intrinsic, Sesame, Mortgage...

Income, assets & membership rise at Cirencester Friendly

Cirencester Friendly has reported continued growth during 2015, with income, assets and membership all increasing. Premium...

New board appointments at the Equity Release Council

The Equity Release Council has appointed five new senior industry fugures to its main board...

Warning sounded over pay rate BTL

Simon Bayley, commercial director at Foundation Home Loans, has questioned whether the next affordability bubble...

Stonebridge unveils homebuyer report & building survey service

Stonebridge Group has launched a new Homebuyer Report and Building Survey service for its...
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COMMENT

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...

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FCA to join Bristol summit as later life lending sector weighs market study

The Financial Conduct Authority will join advisers, lenders and industry figures in Bristol next...
First-time buyers

Targeted deposit scheme could help one million first-time buyers onto housing ladder

A new government-backed deposit scheme could provide a route onto the housing ladder for...
Buy-to-let

Hodge raises holiday let lending limits with 80% LTV move

Hodge Bank has widened its holiday let criteria, increasing maximum loan-to-value to 80% and...
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Family BS expands fixed rate range across core lending lines

Family Building Society has launched a refreshed range of fixed rate products spanning owner-occupier...

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