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Family savings behind new Principality FTB deal

The Principality Building Society has launched a new mortgage designed to help first time...

New buy-to-let fixes from the Leeds

Leeds Building Society has unveiled a new fixed rate buy-to-let range. Rates have been reduced...

L&G appoints intermediary chief for GI business

Legal & General has appointed Mark Holweger as its new broker & intermediary director...

The Yorkshire goes to work on Egg deal

The Yorkshire Building Society wants to complete its acquisition of Egg Banking plc's mortgage...

Trading history top of self-employed app woes

42% of mortgage intermediaries questioned by Kensington said the ability to prove adequate trading...

Target makes senior appointment

Target Group has appointed Paul Rose as its chief operating officer for delivery. Rose will...

Masthaven raises the ceiling to five million

Masthaven Bridging Finance has increased its maximum bridging loan size to £5,000,000. The large short...

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...

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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