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Mutuals top customer satisfaction polls

Mutuals have consistently outperformed banks across various aspects of customer service, including treating customers...

FSA continues onslaught against mortgage fraud and advice failings

The FSA has banned three mortgage brokers from working in regulated financial services, while...

Barclays’ shares fall despite improved profits

Barclays Plc has reported pretax profit in the three months to the end of...

HLP offers advice to HoC brokers

HomeLoan Partnership (HLP), the South Coast based mortgage network, is offering support to ex...

AfI cuts mortgage rates

Abbey for Intermediaries (AfI) is cutting the rates on some of its 70% LTV...

Large rise in identity fraud: CIFAS

During the first quarter of 2010 there was a 19.86% increase in identity fraud...

Largemortgageloans.com to offer multi-currency offset mortgage

A private bank has agreed to provide Largemortgageloans.com with funding for it claims is...

Record-breaking month for Exweb

There were 43,689 new business transactions processed via 1st - The Exchange's Exweb in...

Home of Choice to enter administration

The management of the Home of Choice network has filed with the High Court...

Zurich boosts protection proposition

Zurich UK Life has made improvements to its mortgage and family protection proposition, including...

Britannia & Co-op move to help FTBs

Britannia and The Co-operative Bank have introduced new initiatives for first time buyers. The measures...

Double digit annual house price growth: Nationwide

The price of a typical UK property rose by a seasonally adjusted 1.0% month-on-month...

Two consultants join Compliancy Services

Compliancy Services has added two new compliance consultants to its retail team. The appointments consist...

Rental voids stabilising

New figures from the National Landlords Association, supplied by research consultants BDRC Continental, show...

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Stability is not a slowdown; it’s exactly what the bridging market needs

So, according to the recent Bridging & Development Lenders Association (BDLA) figures, bridging completions fell in Q2. Cue the usual hand-wringing. The headlines landed, the...

The rise of the silver pound

UK house prices may have cooled from their peak, but affordability pressures remain acute. Even with recent adjustments to interest rates, rising property values have...

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...

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Generation X faces retirement squeeze with smaller pensions than parents

Generation X risks becoming the first cohort to retire with less financial security than...

Leasehold reforms stall as sector warns of ‘real-world consequences’

The government is under mounting pressure to accelerate leasehold reform as the body representing...

Zoopla warns cost pressures mean housing targets are at risk

The government’s flagship target to deliver 1.5m new homes over the next five years...

UTB cuts bridging loan minimum and lowers regulated rates

United Trust Bank has unveiled a package of bridging loan changes aimed at making...