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LV= adds flexibility to equity release range

LV= has launched a new, 'flexible' lending policy for its equity release products. The Retirement...

Beware criteria creep

We need a stress-tested market, warns Bob Young, managing director of Capital Home Loans Concentrating...

Average age of a FTB now 35, Post Office claims

35 is the average age that a prospective homebuyer now expects to be before...

Scottish house prices akin to those four and a half years ago

Scottish house prices are almost identical to the price level of four and a...

HSBC branch chief to head Yorkshire Building Society

Chris Pilling, currently head of branch network at HSBC Bank plc, will become the...

Promotion at Dragonfly

Dragonfly Property Finance has promoted Lee Carling to the position of credit support and...

New buy-to-let exclusives from TBMC

TBMC has launched two new exclusive buy-to-let mortgage products with Hinckley & Rugby Building...

Friends Life appoints independent director

Friends Life Group plc has appointed Peter Gibbs as an independent director. Gibbs will become...

DEMSA appoints compliance and discipline chairman

The Debt Managers Standards Association (DEMSA) has appointed The Hon Sir Harry Ognall, DL...

New service to help first-time buyers with credit profile

Halifax and CreditExpert from Experian have embarked upon a new partnership with the aim...

Marginal fall in gross mortgage lending

Gross mortgage lending in July was an estimated £12.6 billion, according to the Council...

Rise in female mortgage arrears

20,717 of the people seeking help from debt charity Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS)...

Select Committee launches FCA inquiry

The Treasury Select Committee has announced an inquiry into the new Financial Conduct Authority...

Teenagers helped by Blemain Group

Local teenagers at the Ladybarn Community Centre will be the first group to receive...

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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...