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New 10-year deal from the Leeds

The Leeds Building Society has unveiled a 10-year fixed rate mortgage priced at 3.64%. The...

Pepper hires CRE servicing head

Pepper UK has appointed Alison Higgs as head of commercial loan servicing. She will support...

Fleet Mortgages exceeds its own expectations

Fleet Mortgages has revealed that over the first three months of 2015 it had...

Robert Owen joins United Trust Bank

United Trust Bank has appointed industry veteran Robert Owen as director of specialist mortgages. ...

Halifax: growth in quarterly house prices

House prices in the first quarter of 2015 were 2.6% higher than in the...

Skipton Intermediaries boosts broker support function

Skipton Intermediaries has expanded its broker support team with the recruitment of three new...

Coventry Intermediaries unveils fee free options

Coventry Intermediaries has launched a range of fee free options for residential borrowers looking...

NatWest IS to cuts buy-to-let and residential rates

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is making reductions to its buy-to-let mortgages as well as cuts to...

BoE: house purchase demand down “significantly”

Lenders reported that demand for secured lending for house purchase decreased significantly in the...

New three-year deals from Accord Mortgages

Accord Mortgages has launched a new range of three-year fixed rate mortgages. The intermediary-only lender,...

Kensington provides help with complex cases

Kensington has launched a new campaign designed to help brokers increase the amount of...

Exeter Family Friendly joins AMII

Healthcare and protection insurer Exeter Family Friendly is to join AMII (Association of Medical...

Complete FS impressed by Axis Bank

Complete FS has welcomed its new relationship with Axis Bank UK, the new buy-to-let...

SortRefer highlights BTL conveyancing following pension ‘freedom’

SortRefer is making sure that introducers who refer clients to its conveyancing panel have...

COMMENT

Ignorance, not cost, still the biggest barrier to protection sales

During 2024 CIExpert commissioned Opinium to speak to 5,000 consumers – a mix of genders and ages – regarding critical illness (CI) insurance. The aim...

The protection gap that runs all the way up the ladder

The property ladder is usually talked about in terms of deposits, equity, and affordability but recent research reveals a less visible truth; moving up...

Why landlords will continue to play a central role in meeting housing demand

This month’s Spring Statement may not have delivered dramatic housing announcements, but the data released alongside it paints a clear picture about the continued...

Debt awareness is as important for advisers as for clients

Debt Awareness Week, beginning on 16th March, provides a timely opportunity for reflection. The early months of the year have long been associated with...

Market may be overreacting to conflict-driven rate fears

Financial markets could be overreacting in the early days of the conflict as they take a second rate cut off the table this year. The...

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Teachers appoints Simon Potter as chief financial officer

Teachers Building Society has appointed Simon Potter as its new chief financial officer and...

Protection gap persists with seven in 10 unaware of IP and CIC

A lack of consumer awareness continues to hold back the protection market with around...

Acre adds full Nationwide mortgage applications to its CRM

Acre has expanded its integration with Nationwide so brokers can complete a full mortgage...

Key Equity Release teams up with Pense to broaden later life advice

Key Equity Release has entered a partnership with pension specialist Pense as it looks...

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