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Access FS reveals first 2023 academy date

Access Financial Services has published details of its first academy of 2023. Last year, Access...

Virgin Money & Clydesdale Bank to allow product switching on pipeline cases

Virgin Money has announced that it can now support product switching on pipeline cases...

HTB launches new ERC Lite and ERC Plus products

Hampshire Trust Bank is launching two new specialist five-year fixed rate residential and semi-commercial...

Molo Finance reduces rates of 75% LTV fixed deals

Molo Finance has reduced its 75% LTV five-year fixed rates by 0.7% for individuals...

Glenhawk appoints BDM for South West & Wales region

Glenhawk has appointed Stephen Wrigley as business development manager, with responsibility for the South...

Bluestone Mortgages cuts residential and buy-to-let fixed rates

Bluestone Mortgages has announced a rate reduction across all of its fixed-rate residential and...

Two senior promotions at VAS Panel

VAS Panel, part of the VAS Valuation Group, has promoted Louise Chapman to commercial...

YuLife joins Paradigm Protect panel

Paradigm Protect has added group insurance specialist, YuLife, to its panel. YuLife provide a range...

Fleet Mortgages reduces all fixed rates

Fleet Mortgages has announced price cuts to its entire range of fixed-rate products. From...

Pure Retirement widens Classic product distribution

Pure Retirement has announced the widened distribution of its Classic range of lifetime mortgages. The...

Homeowners lacking energy efficiency awareness

New research from the Skipton Group has highlighted a gap in home efficiency knowledge...

Gen H makes 2 & 5-year rate cuts

Gen H has made significant reductions across its two and five-year product ranges, reducing rates by...

Landbay updates Special Edition range

Landbay has updated its five-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage range with new lower loan-to-values...

Mortgage mentoring scheme set to launch

With 17 January 2023 marking International Mentoring Day, the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI)...

COMMENT

The uncomfortable truth about the later life lending market

The headlines around the latest Equity Release Council figures released this month all suggested growth. But I think we need to have an honest...

Are we actually set up to support first-time buyers?

After a summer spent thinking it over, this time of year is often the point where first time buyers decide whether they're going to...

Leasehold reform has a September window – will Burnham use it?

At the time of writing, the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill still has no published First Reading date.  But is it imminent? Andy Burnham entered...

Advisers need an answer for evolving landlords

It’s a tough time to be a landlord. The succession of changes to tax and regulation made in recent years - with the Renters’...

AI doesn’t remove bias. It gives us the chance to manage it

One of the great promises of artificial intelligence has always been objectivity. Machines, unlike people, do not have bad days. They do not favour...

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FCA bans debt management executive over dishonesty

The Financial Conduct Authority has banned Howard Roland Duckett from working in financial services...

Industry fantasy football league to raise funds for mental health charter

Mortgage and property finance professionals are being invited to join an industry-wide Fantasy Premier...

Gen H cuts high-LTV mortgage rates by 15 basis points

Gen H has reduced rates across its 90% and 95% loan-to-value mortgage ranges in...

Tenant demand rises for first time in two years

Tenant demand increased in the second quarter of 2026, reversing two years of decline,...

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