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Brokers expect business upturn in Q3

Paragon Mortgages has reported continued confidence returning to the mortgage intermediary market. The buy-to-let lender...

CITRI and Paymentshield sign strategic distribution deal

CITRI is the latest mortgage advisory business to sign a single tie agreement with...

Free MBL and Key access for TMA brokers

The Mortgage Alliance (TMA) is now offering directly authorised brokers free access to Mortgage...

BestAdvice.net expands offering

BestAdvice.net has added three new sections to its website. From today, intermediaries can use dedicated...

igroup added to Brilliant panel

Brilliant Loans, the second charge broker subsidiary of Exclusive Connections, has added igroup to...

Trade body gong for AIFA

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) has won the Trade Body of the...

eGateway adds pension referral service

eGateway, the free intermediary trading platform, has announced a new strategic partnership enabling members...

LV= extends unemployment exclusion offer again

LV= has further extended its offer to remove the initial 60 day unemployment claim...

VIEWPOINT: sale and rent back – completing the advice circle?

Julian Sampson, partner at Wright & Wright LLP, reflects on how quickly regulation of...

Plunge in housing equity withdrawals

The Bank of England estimate for Housing Equity Withdrawal (HEW) for 2009 Q1 is...

RBS unveils shared equity deals

RBS Intermediary Partners (RBS IP) has launched three new shared equity mortgages exclusively for...

New chief for Partnership’s retirement division

Andrew Megson has joined Partnership as managing director of its retirement division. He was most...

Broker banned for fraudulent mortgage application

The FSA has banned Hornchurch-based mortgage broker Abdul Karim for submitting a mortgage application...
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The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

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