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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...

Defaqto offers business protection guide

Defaqto has published its latest guide for advisers, exploring the business protection market.  It argues that business...

The Mortgage Lender hires head of sales

The Mortgage Lender has appointed Paula Priest, a former sales and relationship manager with...

Identity tweak for Keystone

Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages has changed its name to Keystone Property Finance. The...

New offsets from the Chelsea

The Chelsea Building Society has launched a new fee-free offset range. All mortgages in...

Majority of advisers unhappy with retirement solutions

MetLife has found that only one in five advisers are satisfied with the current...

Halifax: rise in annual house price growth

The Halifax has reported that house prices in the first three months of 2016...

Profits up at the Co-op group

The Co-op Group has reported an increase in underlying pre-tax profits to £81m from...

New fixed rates from the Skipton

The Skipton Building Society has launched a new range of two and five-year fixed rate residential mortgages...

Call for re-levelling of disclosure playing field

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has called for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...

“Time for DAs to decide” over seconds route

Master broker Clever Lending says it is still seeing a number of Directly Authorised...

Higher property values for equity release referral customers

Customers referred to specialist equity release brokers by other advisers have significantly higher house...

Ageas falls foul of ad watchdog

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld two complaints made against Ageas Retail Ltd (trading as RIAS). A...
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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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Technology

Mortgage Magic launches Secure Portal through Microsoft Windows Store

Mortgage Magic has made its Secure Portal available through the Microsoft Windows Store, with...
Building Societies

The Cambridge relaunches interest-only fixed rate mortgages

The Cambridge has relaunched a selection of fixed rate mortgage products, including interest-only options...
Building Societies

Vernon BS adds free legals to selected remortgage deals

Vernon Building Society has partnered with Optimus to introduce a free legals service on...
Buy-to-let

Paragon launches tailored buy-to-let service for complex cases

Paragon Bank has launched a Tailored service to support buy-to-let mortgage applications that fall...

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