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Three charged following OFT’s estate agent investigation

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has brought charges against three individuals in connection...

Nationwide supports MI New Home

Nationwide Building Society is offering products under the new MI New Home scheme, which...

Half a million pound fine for former HBOS director

The FSA has fined former HBOS executive Peter Cummings £500,000 and banned him from...

Remortgage market remains stagnant

Borrowers are staying on SVRs according to latest Halifax research. The lender has found that...

Mortgages for Business unveils BTL iPhone app

Mortgages for Business has launched Buy To Let, a free iPhone app for residential...

Masthaven chooses Phoebus Software solution

Masthaven Secured Loans (MSL) has adopted Phoebus Software’s secured loans origination and servicing solutions...

Mortgage Brain app passes 20,000 milestone

Mortgage Brain’s mobile app has been downloaded over 20,000 times since its launch. The...

Newcastle offers new five-year fix

Newcastle Building Society (NBS) has launched a new five-year fixed rate mortgage at 3.99%. It...

Over a million Brits turn to payday lenders

Santander has claimed the 28% of people in the UK are borrowing money to...

SMEs continue to innovate

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are finding new ways to adapt to the changing...

Owning still beats renting

The cost of servicing an interest-only mortgage is lower than the cost of renting...

Working women “not recognising the importance of protection”

Women with full-time jobs are increasingly in charge of family finances but the majority...

Tenants expect rents to continue to rise

60% of tenants expect to be paying more for their rented accommodation in 12...

Slight quarterly rise in new advances

The total value of outstanding loans at the end of Q2 of this year...

COMMENT

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...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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