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John Doughty explores the findings of the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA’s) Pure Protection Market Study.
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Customer value management – or CVM – is the most serious commercial threat to the mortgage intermediary in 20 years and this industry isn’t discussing it at all.
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Attracting the next generation of landlords to the buy-to-let (BTL) market will be key, but the sector is too important to be destroyed, it was said at an industry event.
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Gen H’s platform will provide an initial property approval.
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HSBC and NatWest have cut mortgage rates raising hopes more lenders will follow in their footsteps and make price cuts.
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First-time buyers (FTBs) continue to show greater resilience than the wider housing market, despite ongoing economic uncertainty and affordability pressures tempering activity across the sector, Yorkshire Building Society data reveals. The comes as the government prepares to introduce its new Your First home Help-to-Buy replacement…
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HSBC will be decreasing rates across its residential and buy-to-let (BTL) rates, effective tomorrow. The bank does not give advance details of the scale of increases, but Trinity Financial product and communications director Aaron Strutt predicts that “their best deals for those with larger deposits…
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Mortgage advisers have no choice but to embrace technology in order to survive, a former broker has warned. Speaking at MIT Live in London yesterday, panelists discussed the challenges mortgage firms are facing as AI continues to develop at pace, reshaping the market. JammJar founder…
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NatWest has announced rate reductions on its new business, existing customer and additional borrowing product ranges, effective tomorrow. NatWest will have a 5.04% two-year fix purchase from tomorrow, plus a 4.98% five-year fix. The lender is making cuts to its buy-to-let new business rates, including…
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Mortgage brokers have been urged to think like disruptors and challenge the status quo rather than just trying to everything faster. Speaking on a panel at MIT Live in London yesterday, Mortgage Advice Bureau chief data and information officer Renee Hunt said firms need to…
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