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Free B&C from Yorkshire with certain mortgage deals

Yorkshire Bank is offering a year's free buildings and contents insurance worth up to...

Blemain’s Hyames joins Drawbridge

Specialist short term lender Drawbridge Finance has hired Elliot Hyames from the Blemain Group. He...

Fixes lose popularity, Paragon finds

There was a fall recorded in the popularity of fixed rate mortgages during the...

New B2Ls from Godiva

Godiva Mortgages has launched a new range of buy-to-let mortgages. They include a 4.49% Flexx...

Loan sharks saddling the poor with debt

Over 100,000 of the UK's poorest families will spend 2010 saddled with a combined...

Mortgage Brain to kick off new sourcing system at Wembley

Mortgage Brain is to launch its new sourcing system at an intermediary event at...

Proportion of income needed for new mortgages at five-year low: CML

November saw homebuyers needing to use less of their income to cover their mortgage...

RBS IP new deals include shared equity product

RBS Intermediary Partners has launched three new products and changed the rates on a...

Aldermore eyes intermediary lending with Snowdon appointment

Colin Snowdon has been given a role by bank Aldermore to examine residential lending...

Another day, another broker banned by the FSA

The FSA has banned the director of an insurance brokerage. Stephen Allen of Fabien Risk...

Cops back new Land Registry campaign

City of London Police is supporting the Land Registry's newly launched Protect your Property...

Cost of living increases hitting the retired

MGM Advantage has calculated that the average retired household where the main occupant is...

31% expect economy to worsen this year

The ABI has reported that consumer confidence in the economy was hit in the...

Director appointed at Origo

Jim Smith has been appointed as a non-executive director of Origo Services Limited. Smith is...

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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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