News Archive

In recent weeks we have had confirmation from the Chancellor that the Funding for Lending scheme (FLS) is to be extended to 2015...

New records have been set in sellers’ asking prices, Rightmove said this mornin. The average asking price of a property new on the market is touching £250,000 for the first time, while in London it has soared past the half a million pound mark for the first time...

Tenet has introduced a compliance-approved social media framework for its advisers. The move follows Tenet’s own corporate entry earlier this year on Facebook, Linked-In, Twitter, Vimeo and Youtube...

Developers who are selling shared-equity homes under the Government’s Help to Buy scheme are advertising them on Rightmove at four-fifths of their real price...

The Mansfield Building Society has launched a new range of shared ownership mortgages with loans available at up to 95% of the share being purchased...

The FCA is to consult firms on how it will gather more ‘big brother’ information about borrowers and their finances once the Mortgage Market Review comes into force next April...

Two thirds (66%) of home owners remortgaging in April did so to take advantage of lower mortgage rates, and some reduced their monthly payments by as much as £500...

Estate agents across London and the South are reporting a significant spring bounce in the market – but say that lack of stock is a concern...

A national debt charity has warned that an increasing number of people aged 60 and over are facing the prospect of losing their homes...

The eagerly anticipated 2013 NACFB Commercial Finance Expo is being held at the NEC, Birmingham on 26th June...

3500km of punishing Australian outback… On Horseback… In 150 days or less… This is the mammoth challenge that participants of The Stuart Expedition have set themselves...

Rita Dalton has joined the Let Alliance Financial Intermediary team following 7 years at Paymentshield where she led the Mortgage Club...

The number of people successfully applying for mortgages with Spicerhaart’s Just Mortgages brokerage business rose over 10% last month...

The Government’s new 95% mortgage scheme, due to be launched next January, has come in for a further kicking...

A mortgage round table event is being held by Paradigm Mortgage Services next month in Birmingham...

A total of 8,000 homes were taken into possession in the first three months of this year, down from 9,600 in the first quarter of 2012, but up from the fourth quarter figure of 7,700 for last year...

Specialist Landlord Building & Contents Insurance provider Let Alliance has further improved its product range for Financial Advisers by launching a ‘Non-Standard’ Insurance service...

Intermediaries have taken market share for the first time in three years. They have increased their share of the mortgage market so far this year in all categories of borrowing...

From today, NatWest Intermediary Solutions will be accepting mortgage applications from intermediary clients using the Help to Buy shared equity and NewBuy schemes...

The number of sales agreed during the month of March remained strong, despite fewer house hunters registering, according to the National Association of Estate Agents...