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Key Retirement to offer retirement options proposition

In February Key Retirement will introduce a new Retirement Options service. This follows a...

New resi and BTL rates from Metro Bank

Metro Bank is tomorrow cutting rates across its residential and buy-to-let mortgage ranges. New...

Highest number of homemovers for seven years

The number of homeowners moving home rose by 8% last year, according to the...

January remortgage offer from the Yorkshire

The Yorkshire Building Society has launched two-year and five-year fixed rate remortgages, during its...

Ezbob introduces scratch card scheme

Ezbob is offering a scratch card for each case submitted before 15 February. Introducers will...

Santander cuts fixed and Help to Buy rates

Santander has unveiled its lowest ever two-year fixed rate, available to remortgagers. The lender is...

Bibby appoints head of sales for the north east

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Mike Day as its head of sales for...

Coventry Intermediaries cuts rates by up to 25bps

Coventry Intermediaries has made rate cuts in both its residential and buy-to-let ranges.  Lower rates on...

Consumer finance figures continue to rise

Data published by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that consumer finance new...

FLA reports ‘solid’ November for asset finance

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has today released figures which showed a 12%...

Housing minister to keynote NAEA conference

Brandon Lewis MP, minister of state for housing and planning, department of communities and...

Rents up annually despite December fall

There was been a 3.0% rise in rents during 2014, despite falling on a...

CML updates N. Ireland Lenders’ Handbook Pts 1& 2

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has said that work undertaken in the...

MortgageSource partners with 360 Lifecycle CRM

Online sourcing system provider Twenty7Tec Group and CRM solutions firm 360 Lifecycle have agreed...

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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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