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Homeowner confidence not dented by slowdown

Property owners are still expecting home price values to climb a further 7% on...

Drawdown rate cut by Pure Retirement

Pure Retirement has cut the interest rate on the Pure Drawdown Plan. This scheme was...

Pair appointed to Consumer Panel

Mark Chidley and Kitty Ussher have started their three-year terms as new members of...

New Darlington affinity mortgage to help fight homelessness

A partnership between Darlington Building Society and Yarm School is set to benefit a...

New deals from the Chelsea

The Chelsea Building Society is offering 1.49% two-year fixed rate mortgage at 75% LTV...

Keystone Buy to Let improves criteria

Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages has made four changes to its lending criteria in...

Virgin Money unveils new deals

Virgin Money has launched a new mortgage range that is available through all intermediaries...

The Teachers hikes its maximum LTV

The Teachers’ Building Society has increased the loan to value (LTV) from 75% to...

Europe’s loan portfolio market to top €100bn this year

European loan portfolios with a face value of €91bn were sold in 2014, up...

Brits’ debt “spiralling out of control”

Consumers now owe £196 billion collectively, increasing by 41% from last year, whilst those...

Millions of mortgage-holders financially vulnerable

52% of UK mortgage holders (equating to 5.2m people) who earn an income don’t...

FCA to study PPI complaint trends

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to gather evidence on current trends in Payment...

Land Registry sees house price growth slowing

December saw an annual price increase of 7.0% which takes the average property value...

Landlord Centre teams up with the Hanley Economic

Landlord Centre has launched three new arrangement fee-free buy-to-let mortgages with Hanley Economic Building...
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Conveyancing

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...

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Regulation

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...
Appointments

PEXA hires Julian Wells as UK head of communications

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

Market may be overreacting to conflict-driven rate fears

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