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Over half of adults anticipate lower retirement standards

54% of UK adults believe that their generation's standard of living when retired will...

RAW Capital Partners appoints new CMO

RAW Capital Partners has appointed Peter Grange as its new chief marketing officer (CMO)...

Equifinance completes its first public securitisation

Second charge lender Equifinance has completed its debut public securitisation, East One 2024 Plc. ...

Under 10% of Q1 homebuyers instructed a home condition survey

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) has published results from its inaugural Home Survey Trends Index...

New fixed rates from Virgin Money

Virgin Money is introducing new mortgage products on Wednesday 24 April. Details are as follows: Product...

Nottingham BS appoints head of underwriting

Nottingham Building Society has announced the appointment of Maxine Davenport to its leadership team,...

Time Finance expands business development team

Time Finance has welcomed Dan Murphy as business development manager in its invoice finance...

Majority of brokers expect fall in adviser numbers next year

The total number of mortgage advisers in the UK may fall in as 2025...

24% fall in annual Stamp Duty receipts

Homebuyers paid out £11.6bn in Stamp Duty Land Tax in the 2023-24 tax year,...

Twenty7tec updates SOURCE to support more complex customer needs

Twenty7tec has announced a new update to its affordability solution in SOURCE, designed to...

CSF sees record growth in first three months of 2024

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has recorded its best start to a year as it...

High-value properties being used for equity release

Pure Retirement has highlighted the popularity of modern equity release products among owners of...

TAB joins Brilliant Solutions Mortgage Club panel

Short-term lender, TAB, has partnered with Brilliant Solutions Mortgage Club. Brilliant Solutions’ members will...

Dudley BS cuts mortgage rates by up to 0.35%

Dudley Building Society has reduced rates on a selection of its fixed and discounted...

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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