News

Cirencester Friendly hires interim director of distribution and sales

Cirencester Friendly has made another key appointment to its senior management team. Andy Peters has...

Advisers need to re-engage with later life clients

Air Mortgage Club has published the final results from its ‘Later Life Lending Census’...

£10bn rise in available UK housing equity

Canada Life has calculated that over £740 billion of equity was available for release...

Twenty7Tec integrates APPLY with Leeds BS

Twenty7Tec has completed an APPLY integration with Leeds Building Society, enabling users of CloudTwenty7...

Over one-quarter of firms unaware of digital verification technologies

28% of regulated firms in the UK claim that analysing hard copies of documents...

New FLA chair announced

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has announced the appointment of Rebecca McNeil as...

Intelliflo maps financial advice across Britain

Intelliflo has unveiled its Advice Map of Britain. Based on intelliflo’s data from three million financial...

Myths, mistrust and family worries remain equity release issues

Equity release is still an area of personal finance which many homeowners feel unsure...

Stamp Duty boosts bridging market

Packager contributors to Bridging Trends reported a total of £190.24m in bridging loans transacted...

New identity for MCI Mortgage Club

Finova, which was formally known as DPR Group, has announced the rebrand of MCI...

Buckingham BS unveils five-year fixed rate remortgage product

Buckinghamshire Building Society has announced the launch of a five-year fixed rate mortgage product. The...

Hello Suffolk BS, goodbye Ipswich BS

From today, the Ipswich Building Society will now be known as Suffolk Building Society. The...

BuildLoan partners with Furness for new self/custom build deals

BuildLoan has unveiled eight new products for self and custom builders funded by the...

West One now on Brilliant Solutions’ panel

West One Loans buy-to-let division has been added to Brilliant Solutions’ direct to lender...

COMMENT

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...

Commonhold reform: Devil in the detail

The government's language on leasehold reform remains forthright. Ministers speak of, “bringing the feudal leasehold system to an end,” of returning power to homeowners...

Managing cashflow and risk in today’s turbulent market

Over the past decade buy-to-let landlords have become accustomed to operating in a market where it can often feel like change is the only...

Latest news

ModaMortgages trims limited-edition five-year fixed rates

ModaMortgages has reduced rates by up to 10 basis points across its limited-edition five-year...

Providence agrees deal to acquire Hometrack

Providence Equity Partners has agreed to acquire Hometrack, the residential property valuation and risk...

The Coventry cuts fixed rates by up to 20bps

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced every fixed-rate mortgage in its range, with lower rates...

Family BS appoints Kirsty Dancer as Midlands BDM

Family Building Society has appointed Kirsty Dancer as business development manager for the East...

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