Regulation

Solicitors rapped over free mortgage ad

A firm of solicitors has been told not to repeat a mortgage prize draw...

Lloyds Banking Group fined over delayed PPI redress

The FSA has fined three Lloyds Banking Group firms a total of £4,315,000 for...

Lettings market under OFT microscope

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has published a report which identifies several consumer...

FSA wins High Court case against land banking firm

The FSA has secured what it has hailed as a "key victory" in...

Tenet unveils RMAR reporting software

Directly authorised (DA) firms are being offered software to meet the new Retail Mediation...

RBS total Libor punishment revealed

The Royal Bank of Scotland plc has been fined a total of around £390...

RBS Libor fine expected today

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group has confirmed it is in late-stage settlement discussions...

RICS wants regulation of lettings agents

In calling for the compulsory regulation of lettings agents, RICS believes it could, when...

Tenet disappointed by FSCS funding consultation

Following the publication of the FSA’s recent CP13/1 consultation paper on future FSCS funding,...

Full FSA review of interest rate swap mis-selling

The FSA has confirmed that Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds and RBS will start the full...

Fine for Leicester estate agent over money laundering failures

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has fined Leicester-based IPS Estate Agents Limited £11,844...

Regulators publish guidance over new payment protection products

The FSA and the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) have jointly published final guidance...

Sheila Nicoll to leave the FSA

The FSA's conduct business unit director of policy, Sheila Nicoll, is to leave...

Two new non-executive directors join the FSCS board

The FSA has appointed two new non-executive directors to the Board of the Financial...
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COMMENT

Comment

Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

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Meet the hosts of Mortgage’s Got Talent

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Complex income must not become barrier to Scottish homeownership

Mortgage lenders need to keep adapting their criteria as changing working patterns leave growing...
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LiveMore raises LTV limits and adds flexibility to equity release overpayments

LiveMore has increased maximum LTVs on mortgages with a repayment element and introduced more...
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Cost of collapsed property sales rises to £258m in second quarter

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