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New hires for Keychoice Underwriting

Keychoice Underwriting has announced a number of appointments to its underwriting and business development...

Halifax cuts fixed rates again

Halifax has made cuts of up to 0.35% across its range of two, three...

Cambridge exclusives for L&G club members

Legal & General Mortgage CLub has launched exclusives with the Cambridge Building Society. Martyn Smith,...

Coventry buoyed by results

Coventry Building Society has posted results for the first half of the year and...

CHL continues its investment in people

Nine members of CHL Mortgages' staff have completed the Leadership and Management Programme, offered...

Steady housing market conditions expected to continue

House prices in the three months from May to July were 0.5% higher than...

90% critical illness payout for Bright Grey

Bright Grey says it paid 90% of critical illness claims in the first six...

Aldermore adds new products to range

Aldermore has launched new two-year fixed rates. For buy-to-let, it is priced at 4.18%, with...

First direct improves capped tracker proposition

First direct has cut the rates of its existing capped tracker mortgages by 0.20...

New protection chief for LV=

Iain Clark has joined LV= as managing director of protection. Clark joined the business from...

Intermediaries don&’039t expect 2011 base rate rises

Over half of mortgage intermediaries expect the Bank Rate to start rising in the...

Hurst joins Client Data Systems Group

Client Data Systems (CDS) Group has appointed Richard Hurst as marketing director. CDS is the...

Landlords fear rate rise

The majority of private landlords will be affected by a rise in buy-to-let interest...

Bank Rate held again

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has again voted to keep the...

COMMENT

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...

Latest news

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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