Surveyors

Westmarq challenges surveying ‘duopoly’ as it targets lender business

Westmarq has challenged mortgage lenders to move more of their valuation business away from...

Countrywide Surveying adds 35 newly qualified surveyors in 2026

Countrywide Surveying Services has added 35 newly qualified surveyors to its workforce so far...

L&G Mortgage Club adds estate agency referral service

L&G Mortgage Club has partnered with GOTO Estate Agency to launch a referral service...

Novello joins OPDA as it prepares AI-led surveying platform

Novello Chartered Surveyors has joined the Open Property Data Association as the surveying firm...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder,...

Property industry moves to speed up mortgage transactions

Lenders, conveyancers and estate agents are testing new ways of sharing property information earlier...

Legal & General Surveying Services rebrands as Westmarq

Legal & General Surveying Services has rebranded as Westmarq following its change of ownership...

Market recovery remains fragile as buyer demand improves

Buyer demand and agreed sales improved again in August but uncertainty over mortgage rates...

Mortgage’s Got Talent launches for 2026

Mortgageforce is bringing the mortgage industry together this November for Mortgage's Got Talent –...

Countrywide extends Coventry BS valuation deal for five years

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) has extended its valuation partnership with Coventry Building Society for...

Semi-detached homes lead house price growth

Semi-detached and terraced homes are outperforming the rest of the housing market as buyers...

Independent surveyors ‘must be central to home-buying reforms’

Independent surveyors should play a central role in England's proposed home-buying reforms, according to...

LGSS targets growth as valuation market becomes more complex

Legal & General Surveying Services is seeking to increase its profile in the mortgage...

HMLR and OS data tie-up targets faster property transactions

HM Land Registry (HMLR) and Ordnance Survey (OS) have agreed a three-year collaboration intended...
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COMMENT

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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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...
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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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