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Seven out of 10 brokers believe specialist mortgage market offers best ever opportunity

Seven out of 10 (72%) brokers believe the specialist market now presents a bigger...

First-time buyers face the toughest housing market in 50 years

New analysis from Mojo Mortgages reveals the stark realities first-time buyers are grappling with...

Mortgage search activity dropped in November

November saw a decline in mortgage search activity compared to October 2024, latest statistics...

Stonebridge launch conveyancing proposition for members

Stonebridge has entered into an exclusive partnership with Curve Conveyancing Solutions to supply a...

Leeds unveils game-changing Income Plus deals for first-time buyers

Leeds is rewriting the rulebook for first-time buyers with its Income Plus mortgages, designed...

Majority of IFAs voice discontent over Labour budget

Just a month after Rachel Reeves’s debut budget as Labour Chancellor, dissatisfaction is running...

Atom bank cuts interest rates on Prime residential range

Atom bank has cut rates by 0.10% across its Prime residential mortgage range as...

Keystone Property Finance cuts rates on 2- and 5-year mortgages

Keystone Property Finance has unveiled another round of interest rate reductions for its 2-year...

Landbay cuts rates across 2-year and 5-year fixed products

Landbay has made another round of rate reductions, with rates cut by up to...

Brits turning to second charge deals to to pay school fees

A growing number of Brits are turning to second charge mortgages to fund school...

NatWest cuts rates by up to 39bps “bringing some much-needed festive cheer to the mortgage market”

NatWest is making rate cuts of up to 39bps across selected purchase, remortgage and...

Coreco acquired by OneDome in seven figure deal

Coreco has been snapped up by OneDome in a seven-figure deal that sees the...

Lomond snaps up Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward in landmark multi-million-pound deal

Lomond has acquired Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward (KFH) in a deal reportedly worth millions...

Landlords reveal most important factors when selecting brokers

Buy-to-let landlords place the highest value on brokers’ expertise in tax and regulatory matters,...

COMMENT

Cashback should put conveyancing into the advice conversation

One of the more interesting findings from our latest quarterly statistics was the position of Nationwide Building Society, which accounted for 25% of all...

Why ownership structure matters in buy-to-let

It's a scenario brokers encounter every day. Two landlord clients approach them about the same type of buy-to-let property, with similar levels of equity...

You own the shares, but are you really just the custodian?

I've built three businesses and I've said the same thing most entrepreneurs have probably said to their mates and family at some point: "Give...

The FCA protection market study shouldn’t ignore redundancy

Considering a third of employers are likely to implement staff redundancies by January 2027, according to Acas, redundancy cover shouldn’t be ignored in wider...

If AI gives us more time to think, we must learn how to think well

The great promise of AI in financial services is usually expressed in terms of what it can remove. Less administration, less duplication, fewer manual...

Latest news

Brokers warned of AI fraud threat as lender detects suspicious activity

Mortgage brokers have been warned that the growing use of artificial intelligence could expose...

Mortgage brokers warn DIPs are giving borrowers false confidence

Mortgage brokers have warned that decisions in principle (DIPs) are giving some borrowers false...

Bellway backs Your First Home as mortgage costs hit demand

Bellway has backed the government's proposed Your First Home scheme as the housebuilder warned...

SPF eyes broader proposition as it transitions to Howden Private Clients

SPF Private Clients is preparing to broaden its proposition beyond mortgages and protection as...

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