Business

Underwriting: Are we saying “no” to the wrong risks?

Over the last two days I’ve talked about the size of the later life...

BetterHome agrees deal to acquire Stonebridge parent MSS

BetterHome Group has agreed to acquire Mortgage Support Services Ltd (MSS), bringing Stonebridge Mortgage...

Inflation rises to 2.9% in fresh setback for mortgage rates

UK inflation increased to 2.9% in July, moving further above the Bank of England’s...

Mortgage industry backs alcohol-free MIMHC lunch

An alcohol-free event organised by the Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC) has secured...

The blind spot: residential advisers and the over-55 customer

Yesterday I talked about the supportive nature of the equity release and later life...

1,000 borrowers sign mortgage deeds digitally in under three minutes

The first 1,000 customers have signed their mortgage deeds using Qualified Electronic Signatures through...

Reactive is not a business strategy

I was reading a piece of market commentary last week about what’s defined the...

Half of homes taking longer to sell as regional divide widens

Homes in almost half of Great Britain’s local authority areas are taking longer to...

The uncomfortable truth about the later life lending market

The headlines around the latest Equity Release Council figures released this month all suggested...

Revived Help to Buy would inflate prices: Lamdin

Restoring Help to Buy would strengthen developers’ sales without solving the underlying affordability crisis...

One in three workers financially fragile despite being employed

More than a third of UK employees remain financially fragile despite being in work,...

Nationwide cuts fixed mortgage rates by up to 0.15%

Nationwide Building Society is reducing selected fixed mortgage rates by up to 0.15 percentage...

L&G appoints Kerrigan to drive Ignite broker rollout

Legal & General has appointed Craig Kerrigan as broker relationship manager for its Ignite...

Asking prices suffer biggest August fall since 2018

The average asking price of a newly listed home fell by 2% in August,...
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Business

Brokers are losing the attention battle 1,000 to 3

Take a client you placed on a 5-year fix last year. Over the life of that deal, their bank is now planning to contact...

Triple lock or no triple lock? That is not the question

The debate over the State Pension triple lock has returned. But perhaps the more important question is what the debate tells us about the...

Your clients have already asked AI

The FCA published research on 27 August showing that 56% of 18- to 40-year-olds who hold or are considering investments say they trust AI...

The technology that matters doesn’t make the decision

We have a tendency when talking about mortgage technology to start with what it can automate. How many documents can it process, how quickly can...

Darrell Walker on LendInvest’s next chapter

After 35 years in banking and mortgages, the former football hopeful thought he might have found the company where he would see out his...

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