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PSP Fieldcall links with The Charlbury Group system

PSP Fieldcall, the field agent business specialising in services for the lending industry, is...

LV= pays out 93% of CI and IP claims over past year

LV= paid out 93% of Critical Illness (CI) and Income Protection (IP) claims in...

BIBA backs crackdown on the regulation of comparison sites

The British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA) has submitted its formal response to the regulator's...

Major rise in lending at the Leeds

Leeds Building Society has seen a rise in new lending by 61% to £642...

Skipton cuts rates on three-year fixes

Skipton Building Society has cut the rates on its 75% LTV three-year fixed rates. It...

Flat housing market in July

The latest RICS UK Housing Market survey shows that activity in the housing market...

Mortgage Bureau and Mortgage Talk see fruits of relationship

The Talk Group's new homes division says new homes sales stand at their highest...

NatWest to offer new FTB cash back deal

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is tomorrow launching a new first-time buyer mortgage into its corporate...

Negative equity much rarer than in the 1990s

New research from the CML shows the aggregate loan-to-value ratio on mortgaged property in...

Move with Us to handle probate sales

Move with Us has teamed up with Title Research to manage and sell property...

Paragon improves pricing for professional landlords

Paragon Mortgages has cut its rates on two-year fixed products for professional landlords by...

New chairman for the CML

Martijn Van der Heijden, head of lending at HSBC, has become the new chairman...

Taking a risk on technology

Conservatism towards IT investment isn't a wise strategy, warns Paul Hunt, managing director of...

Pink claims doubling in protection sales

Mortgage and insurance network Pink says life assurance and protection sales in at the...

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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...

Equifinance launches broker portal for second charge cases

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

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

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC) began its third annual 144-mile Walk &...

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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