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HSBC reaffirms commitment to FTBs

HSBC is making an additional half a billion pounds of mortgage funding available to...

AMI/AFB &quotdisappointed&quot by regulator’s PPI move

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) and the Association of Finance Brokers (AFB) have...

Regulator brings in new PPI measures

The FSA is forcing firms to reassess 185,000 previously rejected Payment Protection Insurance (PPI)...

Two new faces at IntelliFlo’s mortgage dept

Software provider IntelliFlo has made two senior level appointments to its mortgage team. Business...

Equity withdrawal out of fashion

Only 15% of people remortgaging were withdrawing equity, according to new data from realpricecomparison.com. Around...

BoE: Net lending turned positive in August

There were 52,317 mortgages approved in August, as total net lending to individuals rose...

Bridging popularity at expense of commercial mortgages

Crystal Mortgages has reported a 10% rise in bridging loan applications. It puts this...

OPINION: Time to regulate buy-to-let?

Why shouldn't buy-to-let be regulated, asks Guy Garrard, head of business development at Tiuta Earlier...

Sesame advisers get CII diploma learning support

Sesame has teamed up with BPP Learning Media to offer its advisers greater choice...

Rents continue to rise

Rents were up 1.4% in August, the third consecutive monthly increase and the fastest...

Proposed landlord register gets the thumbs-down

Paragon Mortgages' Trends survey, a quarterly survey of landlords, found that 56% of landlords...

FSA to clamp down on SRB sales and marketing

The FSA has moved to ban exploitative advertising and high-pressure sales techniques in the...

Average London property worth £310,640

The average house price in England and Wales during August was £155,968. The Land Registry...

Directorial appointment at Phoebus

Mortgage lender IT provider Phoebus Software has announced Mick Woodall has joined the company...

COMMENT

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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