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New longer term fixed from HSBC

HSBC has launched its lowest ever five-year fixed rate mortgage. It is priced at 2.99%...

First fall in house prices for seven months: LSL

In June, the average price paid for a house in England & Wales fell...

Incoming FCA boss to keynote at AIFA dinner

Martin Wheatley, managing director of the FSA, and soon to be the CEO of...

Complex buy-to-let outperforms vanilla market

Yields on 'complex buy-to-let' property reached their highest level in the second quarter of...

End of Stamp Duty slump?

The slump in activity that followed the end of the first-time buyer stamp duty...

Aldermore to establish invoice finance direct sales

Martine Catton has been give the responsibility for establishing a direct business channel for...

CML still favours joint representation in conveyancing

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has said that separate conveyancing should be the...

Developers: know your market

United Trust Bank has said that the differences between recent house price indices highlight...

Over 600 NewBuy reservations so far

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that the recently-launched NewBuy scheme has...

Public ignorant of ‘healthy life expectancy’ figures

Healthy life expectancy Is 'flat-lining', according to Prudential. "People realise that living longer may...

Equity Release Council questions social care proposals

The Equity Release Council has expressed concern following publication of the government's white paper...

Advisers see opportunities from gender directive

IFAs believe that the opportunities posed by the forthcoming gender directive, set to come...

New buy-to-let deals from the Coventry

Coventry Intermediaries is unveiling a new range of 75% LTV buy-to-let products on 13...

Customers losing faith with their bank

MoneySupermarket has found that the majority of respondents to its recent poll say the...

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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