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Moody&’039s downgrades 12 UK institutions

Ratings agency Moody's has downgraded the ratings of 12 UK financial institutions and confirmed...

Haggerty joins Rockstead

Steve Haggerty has joined Rockstead as a non-executive director. Rockstead is a mortgage audit and...

BridgeCompare.com claims £35m lending ceiling

Specialist private finance distributor &lta href=&quothttps://www.bridgecompare.com&quot&gtBridgeCompare.Com&lt/a&gt has launched two new funds. Firstly, it says it...

L&G joins forces with Lifetime Legal Services

Legal & General has signed an exclusive agreement with Lifetime Legal Services. Under the arrangement,...

Lowry Capital offers promotion to celebrate new website

Lowry Capital has relaunched its new website at &lta href=&quothttps://www.lowrycapital.co.uk&quot&gtwww.lowrycapital.co.uk&lt/a&gt. To celebrate the launch of...

Goldsmith Williams promotes Tesco Law for mortgage industry

Goldsmith Williams has claimed that today's introduction of the so-called 'Tesco Law' could transform...

Nationwide publishes FTB guide on smartphones and tablets

Nationwide is re-launching its interactive and independent First Time Buyers' Guide as a smartphone...

CCCS pleased with Cameron&’039s debt call

National debt charity Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS) has welcomed the spotlight thrown by...

New tracker range from the Skipton

Skipton Building Society has launched a new range of tracker mortgages, with a range...

Openwork overhauls distribution support facility

Openwork is restructuring its distribution support functions to to help advisers grow their businesses...

Consider bonuses, brokers urge lenders

Over a quarter of mortgage intermediaries say that more than half of their clients...

Aviva claims protection underwriting improvements

Aviva says underwriting improvements have reduced its NTU (Not Taken Up) rates for protection...

Unsecured loan rates rising despite low interest rates

Defaqto has found that since the base rate reduced to 0.5% in March 2009...

TMW Online suffering from glitches

The Mortgage Works has admitted that there are some current problems with its online...

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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...

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...

Stability is not a slowdown; it’s exactly what the bridging market needs

So, according to the recent Bridging & Development Lenders Association (BDLA) figures, bridging completions fell in Q2. Cue the usual hand-wringing. The headlines landed, the...

The rise of the silver pound

UK house prices may have cooled from their peak, but affordability pressures remain acute. Even with recent adjustments to interest rates, rising property values have...

Staggering stamp duty will make it easier for people to move

A proposal to spread stamp duty land tax payments across several years, in an effort to drive growth and boost the housing market, is...

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Goldilocks and the three bear markets

Are you familiar with C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) or you might know it by its...

HSBC UK widens buy-to-let offering with top slicing introduction

HSBC UK has expanded its buy-to-let mortgage range to include top slicing, enabling landlords...

Industry welcomes government’s homebuying reforms but warns of deeper challenges ahead

Government plans to overhaul the homebuying process have received a broadly positive response from...

The Cumberland names Stuart Miller as next chief executive

The Cumberland Building Society has appointed Stuart Miller as its next chief executive, subject...