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Conveyancers must be forward-thinking to win broker backing

While the nation is starting to return to something approaching normal, important lessons have...

Make the most of the year of the remortgage

If 2021 was the year of property purchase, 2022 looks set be to the...

Will ‘Levelling Up’ help first-time buyers?

The government’s Levelling Up White Paper focused heavily on the housing market, specifically looking...

A case of history repeating?

There could be a tendency - after what was clearly a very good year...

Time for data

We are all familiar with how well data and machine learning can predict what...

Can we wait until 2030 for ‘levelling up’ results?

In Prime Minister’s Questions last week, the Prime Minister himself suggested Michael Gove’s Levelling...

Portfolio mortgages may offer answer in big year for remortgages

As expected, this week the Bank of England announced another increase to base rate....

Act now to help landlord clients combat potential BTL rate rise

In line with the expectation of many economists, the Bank of England has just...

How wellbeing services can benefit the protection conversation

Within our industry, there’s a familiar saying that ‘protection isn’t bought, it’s sold’. And...

Helping commercial property be (re)fit for purpose

The high street is changing. Gone are the days where the adage ‘build it...

No call for BTL doom and gloom

How has 2022 begun for you? There, of course, is always a sense of...

Cost of business inflation can be addressed

Understandably, there is a lot of consternation about the cost of living increases we’ve...

Speedy remortgages can rival product transfers for clients on a deadline

The new year is generally seen as a time for a fresh start, and...

Unleashing the power of cashflow planning

Cashflow modelling is widely accepted as an essential part of the retirement planning process....
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Fixed rates

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

Building societies need to start putting intelligence into motion

If you were at the Building Societies Association Annual Conference in Edinburgh last month , you could not have missed the optimism: the sector...

Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 21

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter's (MIMHC) third annual 144-mile Walk & Talk challenge finally came to an end on Friday 15th May as...

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PBSA

FRP arranges £4.1m refinance for York student accommodation scheme

FRP Real Estate Advisory has arranged a £4.1m commercial term facility to refinance a...
Commercial mortgages

Investor backs secondary retail prospects with Essex acquisition

An investor has highlighted the continuing appeal of well-located secondary retail assets after completing...
News

The Mortgage Works signals buy-to-let rate reductions

The Mortgage Works is cutting rates by up to 0.22 percentage points across selected...
News

Accord reduces residential and buy-to-let rates

Accord Mortgages is cutting rates across its residential and buy-to-let ranges. The intermediary-only lender said...

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