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New deputy governor for the BoE

Sam Woods has been appointed deputy governor for the Bank of England with responsibility...

Landlords guilty of contract-free tenancies

One in 10 private landlords has no formal tenancy agreement in place with their tenants,...

Uinsure appoints BDM

Uinsure has appointed former Paymentshield regional sales manager Helen Linnen as its business development...

Sharp rise in valuations

In March, the total number of valuations carried out rose 8% year-on-year and grew...

FLA: asset finance up 9% in February

Asset finance new business (primarily leasing and hire purchase) increased by 9% in February,...

40% year-on-year rise in second charge lending

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has reported that February saw a 22% growth...

Kensington ups max loan ceilings

Kensington Mortgages has raised the maximum loan limits for first-time buyers and buy-to-let mortgages. ...

Older people don’t know where to get advice

The greatest financial fear for 23% of people aged 65 and over is that their...

OneFamily reveals lifetime product details

OneFamily, which earlier this week announced its intention to enter the lifetime mortgage market...

HSBC broadens its mortgage distribution

HSBC is widening the availability of its mortgages through three new brokers. The three new...

CML members green-light merger

The Council of Mortgage Lenders' (CML) members have voted in favour of the proposal...

SMEs unexpectedly bullish in first quarter

UK SMEs have had a more positive outlook in the first quarter of 2016,...

Record month for LendInvest

LendInvest has reported that March 2016 was its best ever month. The short-term property finance lender completed...

FCA allows affordability waiver for lifetime mortgages

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has decided allow lifetime mortgage lenders to apply for...
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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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