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Take legal advice before gifting deposits, parents warned

The Law Society says parents should seek advice from a solicitor before handing over...

COMMENT: MPPI needs detoxifying

MPPI needs detoxifying MPPI, argues Kevin Paterson, sales and marketing director, Assurant Intermediary Mortgage payment...

Property ownership less desirable

Scottish Provident believes that the concept of property ownership could be falling from favour. The...

FSA claims strengthened stress testing regime

The FSA is now requiring firms to improve their stress testing capability, enhance their...

Tories slammed over EPC policy

Conservative shadow housing minister Grant Shapps has been dubbed "out of touch"" with the...

Brits working hard to go green

Latest research from The Co-operative Bank suggests that UK households are slowly 'greening' their...

L&G expands panel and launches new mortgage range

Legal & General Mortgage Club has added Newcastle Building Society to its panel of...

Increase liquidity, AMI urges government

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has called for more Government support to encourage...

Pause in rental inflation

There has been a lull in the rental boom witnessed over the summer, according...

PMS distribute new HRBS lifetime tracker

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society and PMS have launched a new lifetime tracker product. The...

Bank of England maintains Bank Rate

The Bank Rate has been held at 0.5%. The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee...

Brokers can benefit from PBR pensions confusion claims specialist

MD Pension Solutions believes the pre-Budget report adds further confusion to the pensions horizon. Chancellor...

Bridging stalwart returns to sector

Former sales and marketing director of Cheval, Mark Posniak, is to return to the...

Brain gets the Edge

Mortgage Brain has acquired the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of the EdgeV2 software platform...

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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...

The Mortgage Works cuts switcher rates for existing landlords

The Mortgage Works has announced reductions of up to 0.25 percentage points on selected...

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...

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...