valuations

Together appoints Legal and General Surveying Services as valuation partner

Specialist lender Together has appointed Legal and General Surveying Services as a key valuation...

UTB widens criteria on benefits income and later life lending

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced further changes to its residential and second charge...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with...

Precise waives valuation fees on residential loans up to £400k

Precise has introduced free standard valuations on residential properties worth up to £400,000 as...

UTB passes 50% mark for automated bridging valuations

United Trust Bank has announced that more than half of its bridging loan valuations...

Connells drives £33bn lending as profits jump 19%

Connells Group generated £33.3bn of mortgage lending in 2025 as group profits surged 19%...

Countrywide Surveying Services secures Feefo gold award for customer service

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) has received the 2026 Gold Trusted Service Award from Feefo,...

TwentyCi unveils property-level ESG and valuation tool for lenders

TwentyCi has launched EcoVal360, a new property-level API solution aimed at helping mortgage lenders...

OneDome secures $25m (USD) to fuel UK expansion

OneDome, the UK-based housing and fintech platform, has raised $25 million (USD) in a...

Selina Finance adds Hometrack integration to support no-valuation lending

Selina Finance has launched a new no-valuation option for brokers after integrating Hometrack into...

RAW Capital Partners brings automated valuations into early-stage mortgage decisions

Specialist lender RAW Capital Partners has introduced automated valuation models on eligible mortgage applications,...

Kensington reduces fixed rates across buy-to-let proposition

Kensington Mortgages has reduced rates across its buy-to-let mortgage range, cutting pricing by up...

Keystone secures new funding line to expand buy-to-let lending

Keystone Property Finance has secured an additional funding line that it says will enable...

Early January sees sharp rise in demand for home mover services

Demand for home mover services jumped sharply in the first half of January, with...
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Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

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,...

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