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City Boys’ booze habits play havoc on premiums

Male motorists living in the City of London are most likely to have a...

FLA lending down 12% in October

The consumer credit markets continue to reflect current economic conditions, according to the Finance...

COMMENT: what will this year bring?

Harpal Singh, managing director of Conveyancing Alliance Ltd, looks forward to 2010 Without doubt 2010...

ANALYSIS: should commercial mortgages be regulated?

Stephen Johnson, sales and marketing director, Commercial First, discusses the pros and cons for...

ABI guide gets thumbs-up from Just Retirement

Just Retirement has welcomed publication of the revised ABI Good Practice Guidance: Improving customers'...

Five land banking firms to be wound up

Petitions have been present in the High Court by the Secretary of State for...

OFT consults on credit licence costs

The OFT has launched a consultation on moving towards a new approach to the...

Decline in first-time buyers

The proportion of first-time buyers looking to acquire property has reached its lowest level...

New BTLs from the Manchester

Manchester Building Society (MBS) has launch two buy-to-let products. They are both three-year fixed rate...

Fixed rates continue to lose popularity

The popularity of fixed rate mortgages continued to wane in November, with only 21.3%...

Yorkshire offers mortgage for Stamp Duty rise

Yorkshire Building Society has brought out a new fixed rate mortgage which it says...

Financial adviser banned for dishonesty

The FSA has fined the director of a West Midlands financial adviser firm £75,000...

Business boost for Conveyancing Alliance

Conveyancing Alliance Ltd has reported an increase in its month-on-month remortgage activity in November The...

IFA partners with Assurant Intermediary

IFA business Hurst Independent Financial Services is now giving its HomeBuy Direct Scheme (HBD)...
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Economic uncertainty weighing on business borrowers

Taken as a whole, Atom bank’s SME Pulse for Q2 shows the current robust health of demand in the commercial market. Around 95% of the...

Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

URGENT! AI Is coming for you. Or maybe not…

I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

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Rising cost of living could stall housing market activity

The rising cost of living remains the most pressing concern for Britons and could...
Buy-to-let

The Mortgage Works cuts switcher rates for existing landlords

The Mortgage Works has announced reductions of up to 0.25 percentage points on selected...
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Homeowners stay put as remortgaging nears parity with home purchases

Britain’s homeowners are increasingly choosing to refinance rather than move, with remortgage activity now...
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Co-operative Bank in sub-4% mortgage arena following rate cuts 

The Co-operative Bank for Intermediaries has reduced selected residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates, bringing...

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