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E.surv positive about house prices over coming months

The November House Price Index from e.surv for England and Wales has revealed that...

BFS celebrates most successful year to date

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has ended 2024 as its strongest year to date in...

Afin Bank opens centre of excellence

Afin Bank has established its Centre of Excellence within an office in the centre...

November mortgage market searches down across the board

Twenty7tec has unveiled the latest statistics for the UK mortgage market in November 2024,...

Accord cuts residential and buy-to-let rates

Accord Mortgages is reducing rates this week for the second time in a month. The...

BareRock joins Institute for Financial Wellbeing

BareRock, a Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII) provider, has been approved as a Partner Member...

LiveMore reduces all its mortgage rates

LiveMore has reduced rates across all its 200+ mortgages, spanning standard, retirement interest-only (RIO)...

Opportunities still aplenty in BTL market

58% of brokers operating in the buy-to-let sector have more landlord clients who want...

Paragon cuts BTL rates by up to 50bps

Paragon Bank has revised the pricing across its range of buy-to-let mortgages, reducing rates...

Cirencester Friendly joins ICMIF

Cirencester Friendly has joined the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF). This global organisation...

Norton Broker Services secures £342,000 re-bridge

Norton Broker Services, a specialist finance packager and master broker, has completed a re-bridging...

Completions taking much longer than expected

A survey from the Open Property Data Association (OPDA) has revealed that homebuying is...

Best and worst UK areas to start renovations revealed

Wolverhampton has been identified as the best place to start a renovation project in...

Broker sees 20% rise in FTB enquiries year-on-year

Mojo Mortgages has published an overview of the key trends and insights that shaped...
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Housing reform needs a thriving private rental sector, not just a thriving sales and purchase market

One of the most encouraging developments over recent weeks has been the renewed focus on improving the homebuying and selling process. The Government's plans to...

The economics of developing the next generation of advisers

Over the past couple of decades, I have worked alongside literally thousands of AR and DA firms, from businesses employing one or two advisers...

Is Andy Burnham the New Messiah or just Starmer with better eyebrows?

What a damning indictment of Labour that Andy Burnham appears to be strolling towards the leadership in what looks less like a contest and...

Approvals hit a 2.5-year low: When broker value gets proven – or missed

Net mortgage approvals dropped to 56,200 in May – the lowest since December 2023 - down from 66,000 the month before. Net borrowing fell from...

Removing friction from the homebuying journey

One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...

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Swap rates fall but funding risks remain, warns Moneyfacts

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Growing calls for government to overhaul Stamp Duty for FTBs

Mortgage industry figures are urging the government to review stamp duty for first-time buyers...
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