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Cap on early pension exit charges proposed

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced the level at which it will consult...

Ultimate Finance helps UK manufacturer

Ultimate Finance has provided a £300,000 asset finance facility to Pretty Legs Hosiery. The deal...

New Help to Buy Scotland deals from Virgin Money

Virgin Money has launched a new range of Help to Buy Equity Loan products...

Government proposes 7-day mortgage switching service

The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) is consulting on the feasibility of...

41% rise in London house purchases

Homebuyers in London borrowed £7.1bn for house purchase in the first quarter of 2016,...

Marginal annual growth in Scottish mortgage lending

Homeowners in Scotland borrowed £1.8bn for house purchase in Q1 2016, down 22% quarter-on-quarter...

Wales reports best first quarter for lending since 2007

Homeowners in Wales borrowed £850m for house purchase during the first three months of...

26% year-on-year increase in N. Ireland house purchases

During the first quarter of 2016, homeowners in Northern Ireland borrowed £340m for house...

Brits prioritise broadband and mobiles over protection

Although 21% of people have admitted their household would not be financially secure for...

New associate members for the CML

The CML has recruited a number of new associates in recent months, bringing the...

SortRefer offers POS posters to intermediaries

SortRefer has added a new set of specific point of sale (POS) posters to its marketing...

LSL establishes GI provider

LSL Property Services has unveiled a general insurance provider called First2Protect with products exclusively available...

Brilliant Solutions launches with Kensington

Brilliant Solutions has announced the addition of Kensington onto its lending panel for both the...

Computershare to consolidate mortgage servicing businesses

Computershare says it will service three out of every five outsourced UK mortgages from next...
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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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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...
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LendInvest has expanded its commercial support team with a particular focus on helping brokers...
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Hackathons test property data sharing in homebuying push

Proptech firms have tested how property data can be shared across the home-moving process...
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Foundation refreshes buy-to-let range with new products and rate cuts

Foundation has refreshed its buy-to-let mortgage range with new products and rate reductions across...

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