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Halifax: annual house price growth may ease

The Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to April were 9.2% higher...

The Nationwide ups maximum mortgage age limit

The Nationwide Building Society is to increase its maximum age for mortgage maturity from...

Magellan Homeloans introduces priority service

Magellan Homeloans has revised its service proposition for intermediaries. The specialist lender says its...

Complete FS revises secured loan charges

Complete FS has unveiled a "low cost" second charge fee charging structure, offering a...

Affordability is the specialist lender’s ‘new best friend’

Equifinance believes affordability calculations can be of real benefit to specialist lenders when assessing...

BestAdvice editor beats the heat in charity run

Kevin Rose, BestAdvice's editor, completed his first ever running event yesterday on the hottest...

Rogue claims management firms targeted

A pair of claims firms suspected of making thousands of nuisance calls and ripping...

Remortgaging defies seasonal slowdown

The total number of valuations carried out in April rose 24% year-on-year – a...

Aldermore unveils limited edition rate

Aldermore has introduced a new limited edition rate on its standard and specialised buy-to-let product...

Shawbrook expands commercial mortgages team

Shawbrook Bank has made new appointments to its commercial mortgages division. Amanda Howe and Ella-Louise Smith...

Accord cuts rate on 65% LTV fix

Accord Mortgages has cut rates on its 65% LTV fixed rate mortgages by up to 0.12 percentage...

£13bn Northern Rock mortgage sale completed

The £13 billion sale of former Northern Rock mortgages was completed yesterday, with the government...

NatWest and RBS to stop expat lending

NatWest and RBS will no longer offer mortgages to expatriates from 19 May. This will...

New anti-fraud protocol for conveyancers

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has introduced its Cyberfraud and Fraud Protocol which aims to...
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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...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

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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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MorganAsh urges financial services firms to improve support for unpaid carers

MorganAsh has backed a new Carers UK blueprint aimed at building more carer-friendly communities,...
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Family BS strengthens intermediary team with BDM appointment

Family Building Society has appointed Sam Byrne as business development manager for the northern...

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