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August uptick in mortgage lending

The latest lending data from the Bank of England show an increase in mortgage...

Home insurance costs falling

The overall cost of home insurance continues to fall year-on-year, according to analysis of...

H&R BS finalist for Chambers Awards

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has won the East Midlands 2013 Chamber Award...

Equity Release Council bolsters safeguards

The Equity Release Council has added an extra set of safeguards aimed at ensuring...

Nationwide becomes part of Scottish Help to Buy

From today, Nationwide Building Society is accepting mortgage applications from borrowers looking to participate...

Genworth questions Help to Buy 2 details

The new that the government is to bring forward the second part of its...

New secured loan lender launches

Loans Warehouse has exclusively launched a new secured loan lender, Firmus Secured Loans Limited. Firmus...

LV= enhances LifeTime+

LV= has improved its whole of life policy, LifeTime+. The changes made to the policy...

Leeds staff scale new heights for charity

A team of 12 staff from Leeds Building Society’s sales and operations team successfully...

Steady rise in over 50s using home to fund retirement

The 'HIPpies' (home is pension) generation has doubled in the last year, according to LV=,...

Finance consumers’ social media habits revealed

A new study from Canada Life Group suggests that 12% use social media to...

Virgin Money makes mortgage rate cuts

Virgin Money has made changes to its residential mortgage range. Key residential changes: Mortgages for those...

ASTL conference speakers revealed

Short-term lending trade body the ASTL has published details of the speakers for its...

LV= joins The Source’s home insurance panel

Source Insurance has announced the addition of LV= to its home insurance panel. LV= joins...
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COMMENT

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The conveyancing power of sales-ready packs

Conveyancing is stressful – and I'm not just talking about the poor customer experience. From a turnaround time of around eight weeks back in...

Cloud is not about where you host technology, it’s about how

When lenders talk about cloud, the discussion often begins – quite reasonably – with control. Where will the data sit? How will resilience be...

AI, mortgages and the human need we can’t ignore

There is lots of talk about technology with cloud-native and artificial intelligence just some of the buzzwords of today’s dinner parties and conferences. There is...

PMI – an advice gap not to be ignored

The latest figures from the ABI show insurers processed a record £4 billion in individual and workplace private medical insurance (PMI) claims in 2024,...

The self-employed boom and why traditional life cover won’t cut it

There’s a shift happening in how people work and how they buy homes - especially for the self-employed and gig economy worker. Flexibility, autonomy and...

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Financial firms warned over gaps in tackling domestic and economic abuse

Financial services firms are failing to ask the right questions about domestic and economic...
Buy-to-let

Family boosts buy-to-let borrowing by up to 35%

Family Building Society has enhanced its buy-to-let affordability assessment, increasing potential borrowing by up...
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Average mortgage payments down £119 year-on-year

The average monthly mortgage payment for a new homebuyer has fallen by £119 over...
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Wealthy investors increase exposure to buy-to-let as tax allowances are exhausted

Affluent UK investors are allocating more capital to buy-to-let property once ISA and pension...

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