A new online community has been launched to help UK mortgage advisers use artificial intelligence in their businesses while addressing the compliance and regulatory considerations associated with the technology.
Mortgage Lab, founded by industry figures Liz Syms and Paul...
More than two-thirds of UK homeowners have postponed home improvements because of affordability pressures, despite a majority preferring to renovate rather than move, according...
Target Group has appointed Fiona Peel as product manager, bringing more than 20 years of financial services experience to its product development team.
Peel (pictured)...
The Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) has warned that persistent failures in post-completion work raise questions about professional standards, while changes to inheritance tax...
Virgin Money is raising selected residential new business fixed mortgage rates by up to 0.10 percentage points from Tuesday 13 October.
The changes affect both...
SPF Private Clients has agreed a multi-year partnership with Irish mortgage technology firm LendWell to introduce artificial intelligence across its mortgage and protection operations.
The agreement represents LendWell's largest UK partnership to date, with implementation already underway and a...
Leek Building Society is reducing rates across its 95% loan-to-value (LTV) residential mortgage range by up to 0.64 percentage points and introducing a new cashback deal from 13 October.
The changes cover two-year and five-year fixed-rate products aimed at...
It's a scenario brokers encounter every day. Two landlord clients approach them about the same type of buy-to-let property, with similar levels of equity and broadly comparable borrowing requirements. Yet the recommendation for each client can look very...
Barclays has widened its mortgage affordability criteria for limited company directors by expanding the circumstances in which it will consider Profit After Tax.
The lender has removed the property-value restriction previously attached to its PAT criteria, meaning eligible directors...
Business development managers (BDMs) have long played an important role in the relationship between lenders and brokers.
Traditionally, much of that relationship has centered around...
John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...
One of the more interesting findings from our latest quarterly statistics was the position of Nationwide Building Society, which accounted for 25% of all...
Market Harborough Building Society is offering aspiring homeowners the chance to recover 60% of their rent payments towards a property deposit under a new initiative involving five flats in the town centre.
The Rent to Own scheme will allow eligible tenants to reclaim a proportion...
Considering a third of employers are likely to implement staff redundancies by January 2027, according to Acas, redundancy cover shouldn’t be ignored in wider...
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Mortgage distribution is in a race for scale.
Capital wants market share. Consolidators want distribution. Networks want advisers. Good businesses are commanding serious valuations.
If I wanted to sell, I'd probably be delighted with the market we're in.
But I don't. So I'm looking at it from...
