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Lowest ever two-year fix from Platform

Platform has cut its residential two-year fixed rate to 1.59% from its previous record low...

Largemortgageloans.com partners with Julian Harris Network

Largemortgageloans.com has begun a new partnership agreement with Julian Harris Network to deliver its...

Sesame Bankhall Group to hold national mortgage conference

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has announced a new national conference for mortgage advisers. The...

LLA strikes will-writing deal

The Later Life Academy (LLA), the commercial and training organisation for later life advisers,...

Paymentshield unveils home emergency discount

Paymentshield is from today offering a 50% discount on its Home Emergency cover...

Omni Capital funds 19-unit Chiswick development

Omni Capital has teamed up with developer Prime City Developments to fund the acquisition...

AMI backs Treasury EU directive implementation

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has welcomed the Treasury's response to last year's...

New higher fee/lower rate from NatWest IS

NatWest Intermediary Solutions will be adding four new higher fee/lower rate 60% LTV mortgage deals...

L&C partners with Winston’s Wish

Winston’s Wish, the childhood bereavement charity, has announced its partnership with London &...

Brightstar hires its first BDM

Brightstar has appointed Chris Bennett as its first business development manager (BDM). He will report...

Royal London appoints non-executive director

Royal London has announced the appointment of Sally Bridgeland as a non-executive director. Bridgeland spent...

Aviva extends free new parent life cover

Aviva is offering a year of free life cover worth £15,000 to each parent...

Seasonal fall in confidence

The latest Lloyds Bank Spending Power Report found that many of the key indicators...

Convergence in city level house price growth

UK house prices increased by 0.4% in December to 8.3% year-on-year (4.5% in 2013)...

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...

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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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