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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...

Offset mortgages to help with university expense?

First direct has claimed that if parents with an offset mortgage encourage their child...

Farmland prices reach new highs

Farmland prices reached an all time high during the first half of 2011, as...
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Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 11

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC) began its third annual 144-mile Walk & Talk challenge on Sunday and will finish on Friday this...

A BBR decision rooted in caution, not complacency

The Bank of England MPC’s decision to hold Bank Base Rate (BBR) will come as a welcome outcome for many across the mortgage market,...

Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 10

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC) began its third annual 144-mile Walk & Talk challenge yesterday and will finish on Friday this week....

Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 9

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC) is hosting its third annual 144-mile Walk & Talk challenge from 10-15 May. There are now 72...

When the market gets messy, control matters more than ever

There is a tendency to look at the current market and focus purely on activity levels, particularly after the recent spike driven by lender...

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Conveyancing delays push exchange times past 100 days

The average home that exchanged contracts in April had gone under offer 104 days...
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Equifinance launches broker portal for second charge cases

Equifinance has released its new broker portal, ECHO, giving introducers an end-to-end process for...
MIMHC

Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 11

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC) began its third annual 144-mile Walk &...
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Third of protection clients nearly cancelled cover before claiming

Almost a third of protection claimants at Waddle Insurance had considered cancelling or had...

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