News

RICS: cooling market in England & Wales continues

Scotland and Northern Ireland’s housing market outperformed the rest of the UK in January,...

Fastest monthly increase in house purchase lending in six years

There were 65,778 house purchase approvals in January, chartered surveyor e.surv has reported. This...

Target Group makes senior hire

Financial services outsourcing and software provider Target Group has announced the appointment of Mark...

TSB pilots 95% 10-year fix

TSB is launching a new range of fixed rate mortgages with up to 95%...

Fleet Mortgages reprices following broker feedback

Fleet Mortgages has introduced new lifetime tracker products and a number of price cuts...

New head of mortgages at Nationwide

The Nationwide Building Society has announced that Tracie Pearce, the mutual's head of savings,...

Goldsmith Williams welcomes L&G equity release move

Goldsmith Williams has said it is not surprised by the news that Legal & General...

The Leeds hires new build specialist

The Leeds Building Society has appointed a new corporate account manager specialising in the...

Business boost for LendInvest from smaller investors

LendInvest says it has seen significant growth in investment requests, since it dropped its...

Higher rate tax payers missing out on tax relief

23% of all higher rate taxpayers could be collectively missing out on over £1...

Strong January for buy-to-let

Connells Survey and Valuation has reported that the buy-to-let sector surged ahead of other...

New corporate brand for Mortgage Intelligence

Mortgage Intelligence has changed the look and feel of its corporate brand, as part...

FTBs target for new Barclays stepped deals

Barclays has introduced two fixed rate stepped mortgages. The are designed to help reduce the...

New deals from the Chelsea

The Chelsea Building Society is reducing mortgages across its range by up to 40bps. The...

COMMENT

The UK’s conveyancing conundrum explained

Why is conveyancing so slow in the UK? The average property transaction now takes between 14 and 20 weeks… and that is not taking...

The silent majority: what most financial services customers never tell you

If you work in financial services, you probably have a good handle on formal complaints. You know how many you get, how quickly they’re...

Building momentum is back, but flexible funding will be key to delivery

There are growing signs that development activity across England is beginning to gather momentum again. After a prolonged period of caution driven by higher...

ANALYSIS: Swaps surge and the market braces for impact

It’s been an interesting week so far. Sadly, we’ve had to cancel our BDM meetings, because if we’re being honest, everyone in the market...

The growth is there. Now we must close the gap

The latest UK Finance Later Life Lending Update for Q4 2025 should give every specialist adviser renewed confidence in the scale and resilience of...

Latest news

New platform aims to ease advisers’ compliance burden during client meetings

A new meeting platform designed for mortgage advisers has launched in the UK, aiming...

PEXA hires Julian Wells as UK head of communications

Digital property exchange platform PEXA has appointed Julian Wells as its new UK head...

Market may be overreacting to conflict-driven rate fears

Financial markets could be overreacting in the early days of the conflict as they...

St. James’s Place passes 1,000 female adviser milestone ahead of International Women’s Day

St. James’s Place has revealed that more than 1,000 women are now working as...

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