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FSA reveals PPI redress levels

16 firms, representing 92% of PPI complaints received in the first half of 2011,...

Marginal increase in new mortgages

The number of loans approved for house purchase rose to 49,239, up slightly from...

GE Money adds new plan to offering

GE Money has added a 'FTB1' plan to its mortgage product range. It says the...

Aldermore again improves buy-to-let criteria

Aldermore has made changes to the criteria on its buy-to-let range of mortgages products. The...

Major anti-mortgage fraud scheme unveiled

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) and the Building...

Sell it for what it’s worth

Paul Hunt, managing director of Phoebus Software, is bemused by Starbucks Howard Schultz, the CEO...

Gulf between FTB mortgage and renting costs exposed

The cost of buying a home for first-time buyers is more than £100 a...

Transactional boost for Mortgage Trading Exchange

The number of weekly mortgage transactions processed via the Mortgage Trading Exchange (mte) has...

Primelocation estimates catchment area costs

Parents can now pay up to £77,000 extra to buy a home in the...

Aegon appoints COO

Aegon UK has appointed Tommy Young as chief operating officer for its life and...

Zurich reveals half-yearly critical illness figures

Zurich paid out 89% of critical illness claims during the first six months of...

Norton Broker Services offers enhanced commission structure

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Tenet offers business excellence programme

Tenet has launched a 'Business Excellence' programme to take client firms through and beyond...

Landlord optimism at four-year high

Landlord optimism is at its highest point for almost four years, according to the...

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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...

Making Digital Sales Ready properties the norm, not the exception

Digital Sales Ready listings and upfront information have the potential to transform the home buying and selling journey, creating faster, more transparent transactions with...

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The Vernon named employer of the year at Stockport Business Awards

Vernon Building Society has been recognised as Employer of the Year at the Stockport...

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,...

MAB’s Brodnicki urges brokers embrace  technology, data and AI to make the intermediary proposition even more compelling than it is today

Peter Brodnicki, chief executive of the Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), told brokers they must...

Clydesdale Bank to overhaul variable rate mortgage range

Clydesdale Bank will withdraw a number of products and introduce new variable rate deals...