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Borrowers spend c.20% of take home pay on debt repayments

7% of people who have unsecured borrowings are spending 50% or more of their...

Exeter Family Friendly praises UnderwriteMe’s effectiveness

Exeter Family Friendly has seen immediate benefit after successfully integrating UnderwriteMe into its...

First Complete ‘kicks off’ its year

This week sees First Complete beginning its annual series of Kick Off meetings across...

New fixed rates from the Leeds

The Leeds Building Society has launched new two and five-year fixed rate mortgages today. The...

RSA to underwrite Cavere Home insurance product

RSA has been appointed as the sole underwriter for Cavere Home insurance products. The products...

New deals for landlords from Accord Buy-To-Let

Accord Buy-To-Let has introduced a new range of mortgages, which includes deals for both...

Openwork hires distribution director

Openwork has appointed Dave Ewens to the position of distribution director. Ewens joins Openwork...

Barclays unveils new FTB and HTB rates

Barclays has made a number of mortgage rate cuts for first time buyers and...

Landlords offered 10-year fix by TMW

The Mortgage Works (TMW) has unveiled the longest fixed rate product currently available in...

NatWest IS hires trio of BDMs

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has appointed three new phone-based business development managers (BDMs). Phillipa Healey has...

Investec Private Bank hires Peter Izard

Investec Private Banking has announced the appointment of Peter Izard as business development manager. Izard...

Accord cuts mortgage rates

Accord Mortgages has cut its residential five-year fixed rate range by up to 0.20...

10-day turnaround for Fleet’s first application

Fleet Mortgages issued its first mortgage offer within 10 working days of receiving the...

Bridgewater supports upcoming Equity Release Club events

Bridgewater Equity Release will be in attendance at the forthcoming Equity Release Club training and development...
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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...
News

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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