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Scot Prov’s CI non-disclosure rate just 2%

Scottish Provident paid out £53 million to critical illness policyholders in the first half...

Bridgewater heads west for next roundtable

Bridgewater Equity Release has announced its next roundtable adviser workshop is to be held...

Keystone moves into Scotland

Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages is extending its lending criteria to include Scotland. It...

Record times at Uinsure

Business to business general insurance provider Uinsure is celebrating its best month ever for...

New website from the Source

Source Insurance has unveiled its new website, which includes a range of improvements and...

Improving fortunes for ‘second steppers’

Home affordability for so-called 'second steppers'  has improved in the past year as a...

HSBC makes first-time buyer ‘pledge’

HSBC has launched ‘First for First-Time Buyers', pledging that its range of 90% LTV...

Vizolution unveils Click-to-Call for vScreen

Vizolution has launched new functionality for its screen sharing for financial services solution, vScreen. Click-to-Call can...

CDS Group acquired by Mortgage 27 owner

Verso Capital, the private equity owner of Mortgage 27, has completed the acquisition of...

New deals from Coventry Intermediaries

Coventry Intermediaries has launched a range including two, three and five-year fixed rates starting from...

BoE to provide monthly lending analysis

The Bank of England has published its first monthly breakdown of gross mortgage lending,...

Mutual lending at highest levels since January 2010

Gross mortgage lending by building societies and other mutual lenders was £4.0 billion in...

Kensington improves buy-to-let proposition

Kensington has revamped its buy-to-let mortgage range, reducing rates by up to 0.50 percentage points...

New remortgage products from BM Solutions

BM Solutions has unveiled two new fixed rate products for remortgage customers. Buy-to-let remortgage customers...

COMMENT

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...

First-time buyers and buy-to-let are not rivals

As we move further into 2026, a familiar narrative is starting to reappear. It suggests that a stronger first-time buyer market will be delivered...

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

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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....

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

When lenders talk about cloud, the discussion often begins – quite reasonably – with...

Property chains adding £2k to moves

Property chains are adding more than £2,000 to the average cost of moving with...

The Bath adopts AI verification in push to streamline mortgage processing

Bath Building Society has partnered with fintech Sikoia to automate document handling, income verification...

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