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AFI makes rate cuts

Abbey for Intermediaries (AFI) has made a number of rate reductions in its mortgage...

OpenConvey now offering instant payment

Online conveyancing portal OpenConvey is now offering a referral fee payment system to make...

Platform wants new range to help increase lending volumes

Platform has launched new mainstream and buy-to-let products as it plans to increase its...

Assurant Intermediary unveils point of sale-underwritten ASU

General insurance firm Assurant Intermediary has launched what it claims to be the first...

Approvals to remain subdued throughout 2011: Hometrack

Hometrack has predicted that mortgage approvals will remain flat over the next 12 months...

Tenants struggling to pay rent

There has been a rise in the number of tenants who seem to be...

BTL loan sizes rose during Q4

Buy-to-let and commercial mortgage broker TBMC has seen an increase in loan size for...

Estate agent’s ad banned by ASA

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an advert from Imagine Estate Agents of...

Kung Hei Fat Choi?

2011 will be the year of the landlord, argues Guy Garrard, head of business...

December valuations up year-on-year

Connells Survey and Valuation has reported that increased remortgaging and buy-to-let activity meant the...

The Leeds cuts 2yr BTL discount rate

Leeds Building Society has cut the rate on its two-year discount buy-to-let mortgage by...

New appointment at Drawbridge

Claire Dunning has joined the broker liaison team at bridging lender Drawbridge Finance. She has...

RBS and NatWest fined £2.8m over complaints handling failures

The FSA has fined Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and National Westminster Bank £2.8...

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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...

Supercharging affordability: a broker’s tool for unlocking complex cases

If you could choose a superpower, what would it be? The ability to see the future? To slow down time? To get every case...

Selling isn’t shouting

In many industries, sales still carries the weight of old stereotypes: high pressure, slick scripts and a focus on numbers over nuance. But these...

When service beats software: why hands-on support is the real differentiator in conveyancing

For all the talk about technology reshaping the mortgage and conveyancing world, advisers know that what you often need is some good, old-fashioned support. Not...

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Carter Jonas warns housing reforms ‘far from sufficient’ to tackle crisis

The government must go further than its initial wave of planning reforms if it...

South London dominates list of most popular London boroughs for buyers and renters

South London has emerged as the capital’s most sought-after area for both buyers and...

Household incomes fall nearly 9% in three years as tax and inflation bite

Households are nearly 9% worse off than they were before the pandemic, according to...

Millions of adults trapped at home as 98% priced out of first homes

Almost five million adults in Britain are unable to move out of their parents’...