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FSA continues mortgage fraud crackdown

The FSA has banned six individuals, and fined one of them over £130,000, for...

YBS launches exclusives with moneysupermarket.com

Yorkshire Building Society has launched two new three-year fixed rate mortgages, with 75% and...

Only four firms authorised for sale & rent back

Only four firms are currently authorised by the FSA to conduct sale and rent...

ANALYSIS: Half year review

Dean Jones, head of paaleads.com, looks at changes in the recent Budget Since the start...

Don’t believe the hype: Boulger

Ray Boulger of John Charcol says the Bank of England's Q2 2010 Credit Conditions...

Aviva improves insurance for tech market

Aviva has changes to its commercial combined policies in an attempt to better meet...

Mortgage Brain offers Connect Overseas deals

Connect Overseas' mortgage products will now be available to intermediaries via Mortgage Brain. These include...

Countrywide buys another lettings agency business

Countrywide has acquired The Letmore Group, the largest independent specialist lettings agency in East...

Average UK adult owes £30k

UK banks and building societies wrote off £9.6 billion of loans to individuals in...

FLA to warn government over regulation

Regulation should not cause unintended and potentially damaging consequences for lenders and their customers,...

GHL network adds CMC to panel

GHL Network Services is now offering Cheshire Mortgage Corporation's mortgages to its advisers. Cheshire Mortgage...

Fistful of rate cuts from first direct

First direct has reduced the rate on five of its most popular mortgage products...

Home & Capital bucks trend on home reversion

Home & Capital is increasing the rates on its home reversion plans. For example,...

OFT revokes licence from NE businessman

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has revoked the credit licence of Middlesbrough-based businessman...

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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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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’...

Blackstone and Pluto Finance launch £2bn real estate partnership

Blackstone has struck a £2 billion partnership with Pluto Finance to expand its presence...

Property chief urges Reeves to prioritise housing reforms in Budget

Rachel Reeves has been urged to use next month’s Autumn Budget to deliver decisive...

Remortgage completions fall sharply as borrowers face higher payments

The number of remortgage completions fell by more than a quarter in August as...