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Gateway Surveyors reappointed as Marsden BS panel manager

Gateway Surveyors has announced that Marsden Building Society has reappointed it as its panel...

Buckinghamshire BS cuts rates across whole range

Buckinghamshire Building Society has reduced rates by up to 0.20 percentage points across a...

Two new roles at Uinsure

Uinsure has announced two new major roles created to lead the strategic focus of...

Brokers seeing non-standard insurance market growth

79% of brokers have experienced an increase in non-standard insurance enquiries over the past...

NatWest revises buy-to-let new business range

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has announced a series of changes to its buy-to-let-offering. The rate changes...

Hodge changes specialist mortgage criteria

Hodge has increased the first death stress on its 50+ product and enhanced criteria...

Mortgage Advice Bureau appoints non-executive chairman

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has appointed Mike Jones as non-executive chairman. Jones (pictured) has spent35...

Paragon simplifies BTL deals and updates intermediary website

Paragon Bank has revised and simplified its buy-to-let mortgages offering, removing the differentiation between...

Just 1% real-term rise in weekly pension income over past decade

People on pension incomes have received minimal increases in real standards of living over...

Suffolk BS re-enters 95% LTV market

Suffolk Building Society has returned to the 95% loan to value (LTV) market with...

Hilco Real Estate Finance joins ASTL

Hilco Real Estate Finance (HREF) has become the latest lender member to join the...

British Friendly unveils Children’s Critical Illness Cover

British Friendly has launched Children’s Critical Illness Cover as an optional benefit which can...

Kensington improves Professional product range

Kensington Mortgages has made changes to its Professionals product range and also launched new...

Skipton International now on Mortgage Brain platforms

Mortgage Brain has welcomed Skipton International to its Sourcing Brain and Criteria Brain platforms. The...

COMMENT

Advisers should be brave enough to drown out the noise

If you thought the economic and mortgage market commentary had been particularly noisy recently, I suspect you haven't heard anything yet, because with the...

Expat buy-to-let: a smaller world, a bigger picture

There has been no shortage of gloomy commentary about buy-to-let of late, so you might wonder why anyone living overseas would want to invest...

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...

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‘The Godfather’ joins Mortgage’s Got Talent judging panel

John ‘The Godfather’ Malone has been recruited as a judge for Mortgage’s Got Talent,...

Royal London introduces AI menopause support tool for staff

Royal London has launched an AI-powered tool designed to help employees and managers access...

Your First Home delays could stall first-time buyer market

Delays in launching the government's Your First Home scheme could cause first-time buyers to...

Foundation recruits former Metro Bank BDM to cover eastern region

Foundation has appointed Foz Ahmad as regional account manager for the East, bringing 12...

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