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The Skipton broadens new build mortgage range as demand shifts

Skipton Building Society has expanded its mortgage range for new build buyers, offering 95%...

Paul Welch lifts lid on how the super-rich use debt to build wealth

Paul Welch, founder of private finance firm Million Plus, has launched a book claiming...

How lenders’ new freedoms are undermining client relationships

Can we expect lenders to try and tighten their grip on borrowers at their...

AMI Protection Viewpoint 2025: Reigniting the protection journey

Making protection relevant and keeping customers engaged is a vital part of the advice...

Halifax takes top spot for broker experience in latest lender benchmark

Halifax has been named the best mainstream lender and the top performer for overall...

Budget U-turns and tax shocks dominate expert webinar

The Autumn Budget’s confused signalling, long lead times and heavy hit on property investors...

Yorkshire Building Society brings mortgage brands under one division

Yorkshire Building Society is consolidating its mortgage operations into a single Homes division in...

Southern house prices slip as tax fears hit demand

House prices have fallen year-on-year across southern England for the first time in 18...

Market Financial Solutions expands wellbeing drive as sector faces recruitment challenges

Market Financial Solutions has stepped up its internal support programmes following a study showing...

First-time buyer affordability improves as wages rise and mortgage rates ease

First-time buyers are seeing the most favourable affordability conditions in almost a decade, according...

AUTUMN BUDGET: OBR leak lays bare full scale of Reeves’s tax plans

The Autumn Budget was thrown into turmoil after the Office for Budget Responsibility mistakenly...

Gareth Lewis on leading MT Finance through a changing landscape

Gareth Lewis has spent the past seven years at MT Finance, guiding the specialist...

NO FILTER: MAB’s relentless founder on risk, resilience and reinvention

Peter Brodnicki, co-founder and long-serving chief executive of Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), has spent...

Past 6 to 7: the story behind our new lending limits

6,7, the viral ‘slang’ term accompanied by a two-handed palm up gesture being used...
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We must not accept our snail’s pace home buying system

Buying a house in this country can be ridiculously slow, as a handful of recent studies have highlighted. Research from the House Buyer Bureau...

Deferment and capitalisation rates: small percentages, large consequences

The Government is currently consulting on Leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates to determine what deferment and capitalisation rates should be prescribed under the Leasehold and...

Your clients can’t tell which firm they’re dealing with

Two clients walk into your firm in the same week. One of them is a referral from a mate of yours. Complicated case, self-employed, bit...

It’s time to look at retention

As the summer winds down and the back-to-school routine kicks back in, I urge the industry to turn its attention to something just as...

Landlords are buying – and advisers should take note

There has been no shortage of commentary over recent years suggesting landlords are heading for the exit, buy-to-let apparently no longer works and the...

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