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Homebuyers’ priorities different post-Covid

Homebuyers in the UK are putting far greater emphasis on transport links when looking...

Ceta’s rewards programme reaches broker milestone

Ceta Insurance has announced that its broker and IFA reward programme has reached 1,000...

Marsden revises expat mortgage criteria

Marsden Building Society has made several changes to its expat mortgage criteria, including accepting...

Investec provides development loan for 397-bed Stratford PBSA scheme

Investec Real Estate has provided a joint venture between Watkin Jones and Housing Growth...

ModaMortgages appoints new intermediary sales development manager

ModaMortgages has appointed Chantel Ford as its new intermediary sales development manager. Ford (pictured)...

Market Harborough BS unveils new brand and broker promise

Market Harborough Building Society has introduced a new broker brand and website. The lender has...

Alternative Bridging bolsters sales team with new hire

Alternative Bridging Corporation has added its sales team, with the recruitment of Chris Roscoe...

Pepper backs the Mortgage Marketing Mingle

Pepper Money has announced that it is supporting a new spin-off initiative, in conjunction...

Virgin Money reduces buy-to-let fixed rates

Virgin Money is reducing selected buy-to-let fixed rates tomorrow (Tuesday 20 August). The changes will...

CapitalRise passes £400m origination milestone with record-breaking July

CapitalRise has reported a record-breaking July, after it originated loans valued at £49.4 million...

UK health system “becoming three-tier”

Clarity Health Insurance has argued that the UK is moving towards to a three-tier...

Late payments to SMEs on the rise

More that 3.6 million (72%) small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have some form of...

WNS joins Conveyancing Association as affiliate member

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has announced WNS, a provider of global digital-led Business Process...

Rightmove expects more active autumn property market

Rightmove has reported that the average price of property coming to the market for...

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Taking the anxiety out of finance

It’s an anxious time for mortgage borrowers. A recent study by Handelsbanken Wealth found that the proportion of UK adults apprehensive about making mortgage...

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...

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AI could prove critical as later life lending demand grows, Air warns

Later life lending specialists may struggle to capitalise on growing demand for advice unless...

Home improvement finance surges 112% as households invest in existing properties

Finance for home improvements more than doubled in the third quarter of 2026, according...

Younger equity release borrowers more likely to make interest payments

Borrowers under the age of 70 account for nearly two-thirds of more2life's lifetime mortgage...

Chetwood Bank names new board risk committee chair

Chetwood Bank has appointed Melanie Czarra as a non-executive director and chair of its...

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