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Brokers missing out with unplaced secured loan enquiries

The average mortgage intermediary comes across 14 secured loan enquiries per year, according to...

Backers pledge to promote SAFEagent

The SAFEagent campaign held its first consumer stakeholder forum on 12 December. The meeting, chaired...

November saw rent decreases

Rents fell last month for the first time in 10 months, according to the...

HML migrates BoI mortgages for sale purposes

HML has completed the migration of £1.2 billion worth of mortgages from Bank of...

Ageas Protect to improve existing CI policies

Following the launch of its 'enhanced' critical illness product in November, Ageas Protect says...

CML forecasts £138bn gross lending in 2012

Gross mortgage lending in November totalled an estimated £13.0 billion, with the monthly figure...

Portas Review backed by high street conveyancers

especially if the Co-op

HML expects 7% rise in repossessions next year

Repossessions are set to rise by around 7% in 2012 according to a regional...

FSA acts against another landbanking firm

The FSA has secured a summary judgment in the High Court against land banking...

Tiuta secured £30m funding

Tiuta has secured £30 million in new funding for use during December 2011 and...

Self-build market to double by 2015

Research by Datamonitor suggests that mortgage advances for self-build properties will rise from less...

Horta-Os&oacuterio to return to LBG helm

Lloyds Banking Group chief executive, Ant&oacutenio Horta-Os&oacuterio, is to return from his leave of...

New fixed rates from the Co-op

The Co-operative Bank is re-launching its fixed rate mortgage range tomorrow (December 16). Rates will...

Co-op preferred bidder for Lloyds branches

The Co-operative Group has been given preferred bidder status in the process currently being...
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The nightmare of UK homebuying needs reform

House sellers will be forced to disclose problems with their homes before sale under plans by the Government to cut costs for buyers and...

Goldilocks and the three bear markets

Are you familiar with C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) or you might know it by its nickname 3I/ATLAS? Whatever you want to call it,  it is currently...

Mark Bogard on policy, politics and the future of advice

When Mark Bogard, Chief Executive of Family Building Society, talks about Britain’s housing policy, he is unsparing in his assessment: short-termism, revolving-door ministers and...

Finding efficiency will keep branches as the beating heart of mutual sector

Whether you speak to customers or building societies, they will tell you just how important branches are – even as financial services and wider...

Mortgages, mutuality, members and making a difference

Anyone working in the mortgage market knows that a key area of our measurement is sales. How many cases we complete, the value of...

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Rising sick leave issues as long-term absence costs top £2k per worker

The majority of UK businesses are increasingly anxious about the impact of sickness absence...
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Movera strengthens people and culture team with two senior appointments

Home moving brand Movera has expanded its human resources leadership team with two new...
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Housing market stalls as buyers and sellers pull back ahead of Budget

Britain’s housing market has stalled for a third consecutive month as uncertainty over next...
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First-time buyer homes outpace wider market as affordability improves

First-time buyers are paying more for their homes than they were a year ago...

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