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Amicus quartet scale Atlas height

Four staff members from Amicus Property Finance have completed the ascent of the highest peak...

London & Country considers flotation

The board of directors of London & Country Mortgages have responded to speculation that...

FHL simplifies criteria and reprices limited company deals

Foundation Home Loans has introduced a new range with reduced rates on prime fixed products...

Fleet’s BlackRock arrangement passes £500m mark

Fleet Mortgages has revealed that its relationship with asset manager BlackRock has so far resulted...

Saffron adds interest-only to occupational range

Saffron For Intermediaries is providing interest-only options across its occupational range of loan products. The occupational range...

Prestige Finance simplifies prime offering

Prestige Finance has simplified its mortgage range by creating a single prime range for loans...

May transaction levels down 12% year-on-year

HMRC's provisional seasonally adjusted UK property transaction count for May 2016 was 89,700 residential and...

HSBC unveils 0.99% two-year fix

HSBC has launched a two-year fixed rate mortgage at 0.99%. The deal commands a £1,499 product...

16% have never changed their mortgage

2.5 million people in Britain, equivalent to 16% of all mortgage holders, have never...

ASTL welcomes 35th member

Short-term property finance specialist Avamore Capital has joined the Association of Short Term Lenders...

New presidential teams at ARLA and NAEA

The Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) and National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA)...

Scottish Widows Protect range made more accessible

50% of the UK’s mortgage holders (8.2 million people) have no life cover in place...

43% of brokers adversely affected by referendum

A new poll of over 200 finance brokers operating in the fields of bridging,...

Capricorn agrees five-year extension with Openwork

Openwork has announced that Capricorn Financial, its largest Appointed Representative (AR) by mortgage applications...
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Stamp Duty

Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for stimulus, this time: abolish stamp duty. The logic feels intuitive -...

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

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TAB promotes Bonner to chief risk officer

Specialist lender TAB has appointed Jack Bonner as chief risk officer as it continues...
Building Societies

Skipton BS lowers residential rates

Skipton Building Society is reducing rates across parts of its residential mortgage range from...
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AMI refreshes brand to reflect advice, mortgages and insurance focus

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries has launched a brand refresh intended to reflect its...
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IMLA guide explains why fixed mortgage rates can rise before Bank Rate moves

IMLA has published a report and five-minute guide to help advisers explain how swap...

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