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Scottish market recovery pauses

The latest Scottish House Price Monitor from Lloyds TSB Scotland has indicated that the...

SimplyBiz Mortgages partners with largemortgageloans.com

SimplyBiz Mortgages has entered into a partnership with largemortgageloans.com to offer a large loan...

Accord cuts fixed rates

Accord Mortgages is to unveil tomorrow a two-year fixed rate at 2.99%, up to...

Kensington’s E-KWIP rolled out to all its distributors’ ARs

Kensington has launched its online DIP and application tool -E-KWIP - to all of...

Lifetime – long-term fix divide widens

The average fixed rate charged for lifetime mortgages has increased when compared to the...

System developed for LPA receivers

The Charlbury Group has launched a Law of Property Act 1925 (LPA) receiver system....

Tiuta cuts bridging rates and legal costs

Specialist lender Tiuta has cut its closed bridge rates by 0.5 percentage points and...

Aviva wins Santander insurance tender

Aviva has won a competitive tender process for the distribution of household insurance products...

Mortgage Brain claims 1,000 new users

Mortgage Brain has claimed that over 1,000 mortgage brokers and financial advisers have adopted...

Homeowners struggle to sell up

Santander Mortgages has calculated that almost twice as many attempts by homeowners to sell...

Lloyds to shut Irish business bank

Lloyds Banking Group Plc is to close its business banking operation in Ireland by...

Students fuel house price rises

60% of university towns across the UK have seen house price growth outperform the...

Northern Rock cuts application fee by 60%

Northern Rock is to reduce its application fee for purchase customers from £250 to...

Insurer loyalty misguided: Confused.com

Confused.com has claimed that home insurance providers are "cashing-in"" on customers' misplaced loyalty

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Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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