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E.surv: first-time buyers finding their feet again

Home lending in 2016 saw its best opening quarter for nine years, according to...

New deals from Mortgage Trust

Mortgage Trust has launched a new range of products which includes two five year...

Accord cuts buy-to-let product fee

Accord Buy To Let has reduced the product fee on selected mortgages by £650. All...

Growing pessimism in housing market

Confidence in the UK housing market is at its lowest level in over a...

Over 1,000 attendees at ARLA conference

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents (ARLA) held its annual ARLA Conference 2016 on...

Conveyancing Association partners with DUAL

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has announced a new partnership with DUAL Asset Underwriting, launching an...

Seconds distributor on CeMAP track

Second charge distributor Fluent Money says it is set to have all 85 of its client-facing...

Q1 rise in HMO purchases

The latest Complex buy-to-let Index from Mortgages for Business has found that the introduction...

Tracey McDermott to leave the FCA

Tracey McDermott, acting chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to leave...

Major rises in purchase and remortgage activity

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that during February, home-owners borrowed £8.7bn...

Network extends arrangement with specialist distributor

The Right Mortgage network (TRM) has extended its panel partnership agreement with Crystal Specialist...

LLA responses to FCA’s ageing population paper

The Later Life Academy (LLA) has submitted its response to the FCA Discussion Paper (DP16-1),...

Over-55s reluctant to move from home city

62% of over-55s are worried about making ends meet in retirement where they live, but...

Board change at OneSavings Bank

Malcolm McCaig, independent non-executive director of OneSavings Bank plc (OSB), will be stepping down...
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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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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...
Appointments

HLPartnership hires Toby Miles from Legal & General for recruitment role

HLPartnership has appointed Toby Miles as recruitment manager, joining the mortgage and protection network...
Technology

Mortgage Brain unveils major CRM Brain update shaped by broker feedback

Mortgage Brain has released its most extensive update to CRM Brain, introducing new functionality...
ESG

Consumers put greater trust in B Corp certified financial providers, says Cumberland

More than half of consumers say they would feel more confident in their bank...

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