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What could shape buy-to-let in 2026 and the impact for advisers

As we move slowly into 2026, the buy-to-let market feels more settled than it...

AdvisoryAI states advisers reclaimed the equivalent of 62 working years in 2025

AdvisoryAI has reported a sharp increase in usage of its artificial intelligence platform during...

2026 will see the normalisation of AI across the mortgage industry

As we look ahead to 2026, there is one word that sits at the...

Advice Guru launches AI business planning tool aimed at advisers without formal strategies

Advice Guru has launched a new AI-driven business planning tool designed to support financial...

e4 Strategic deepens Caversham House partnership to build AI capability into VERSA

e4 Strategic has extended its partnership with Caversham House as it looks to embed...

AI adoption set to define mortgage market trajectory in 2026

The mortgage sector is expected to prioritise technology-driven efficiency and service improvements as lenders...

Research highlights widespread concern over lenders’ tech readiness

More than two-thirds of mortgage lenders are uncertain about their capacity to implement emerging...

Twenty7tec unveils INSIGHT Pro as lenders push for deeper behavioural analytics

Twenty7tec has launched its latest data-analytics platform, INSIGHT Pro, positioning the technology as a...

Graham McClelland on Britain’s broken mortgage market

When Graham McClelland, the youthful and quietly intense chief executive of Gen H, arrived...

Sikoia and Yavia partner to streamline adviser workflows and improve data accuracy

Sikoia, the automated customer verification provider, has formed a technology partnership with Yavia, the...

FCA begins live testing programme to guide safe use of AI in financial services

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a new live testing programme designed to...

Conveyancers in AI push to speed up property transactions

Artificial intelligence use among residential conveyancers has doubled in the past year, according to...

AMI Protection Viewpoint 2025: Turning challenges into opportunities

Delivering better outcomes and protecting more customers is all in a day’s work for...

Clients seek reassurance amid Budget uncertainty

Consumers are placing growing value on financial advice as speculation ahead of the Budget...
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Artificial Intelligence

If you motivate an idiot you just get stupid things done quicker

There's a lot of excitement about artificial intelligence in the mortgage industry right now. Nearly nine in 10 mortgage brokers want technology to play...

Hobson’s Choice: Which root canal treatment would you prefer, Sir?

Now that Andy Pandy from ‘oop norf’ is de facto the Prime Minister elect and will shortly be choosing the colour scheme of No...

Buy-to-let: reality versus a much-peddled narrative

Every few months, it seems, another report emerges suggesting buy-to-let no longer stacks up as an investment proposition. The headlines are often dramatic, the...

A week of progress and reassurance

The past week has brought further reassurance for borrowers. With the Bank of England holding the base rate as expected and inflation remaining steady...

ABS 2026 review: Economic factors stemming growth

As the Global ABS conference ended there was no doubt that it was a huge success, with official numbers being confirmed at 5,500 attendees,...

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Hodge broadens property lending criteria across residential ranges

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