News

Halifax unveils 1% cashback offer

The Halifax has launched a 1% cashback offer for first time buyers and home...

The Leeds hires quality and competency head

The Leeds Building Society has appointed Dave Conway as its head of quality and...

Magellan to hold trade show one-to-ones

Magellan Homeloans is offering brokers the opportunity to book a one-to-one consultation session at...

Clever Lending joins HLP panel 

Clever Lending has joined the HomeLoan Partnership (HLP) network as a provider of second...

Growing numbers look to improve not move

Increasing numbers of homeowners are choosing to improve not move, as the costs of...

Bridging brokers don’t back Brexit

57% of brokers surveyed by bridging lender MTF would like the UK to remain...

Bibby boosts its Manchester business funding

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has increased its funding to Manchester businesses by 26%, as it...

The Yorkshire awarded for charitable exploits

The Yorkshire Building Society has been recognised twice for the contribution it makes to good causes. It...

VitalityLife hires new national accounts director

VitalityLife has appointed Dave Ewens as national accounts director. He has responsibility for managing...

Treasury Committee concerned by banking tax surcharge

Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Treasury Committee, has written to the Professor Alasdair...

Lloyds promises ‘hassle free’ mortgage offer

Lloyds Bank has launched a new ‘hassle free’ mortgage offer, providing first time buyers, home...

Existing landlords benefiting from stamp duty hike

Taking into account both rental income and capital growth, but before property-specific costs such...

New CFO for property crowdfunding platform

Crowdfunding platform Property Partner has recruited a new chief financial officer. Warren Bath, former mergers...

Highest quarterly city house price growth for 12 years

City level house price inflation over the first three months of 2016 reached 4.2%,...
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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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Regulation

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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