criteria

Marsden BS expands later life mortgage criteria

Marsden Building Society has made a series of changes to its later life mortgage...

Knowledge Bank addresses cladding-related challenges

Knowledge Bank has introduced a new criteria category designed to help brokers navigate lender...

Gen H updates income booster criteria

Gen H has updated its income booster mortgage criteria to allow boosters to live...

Mortgage Brain unveils integrated web platform

Mortgage Brain has launch Mortgage Brain Hub, an integrated mortgage technology platform designed to...

MPowered Mortgages using digital assistant to give criteria answers to brokers

MPowered Mortgages has unveiled a voice-activated digital assistant to provide brokers with answers in...

Bluestone improves criteria and application process

Bluestone Mortgages has announced criteria and system updates in order to streamline its mortgage...

Pepper Money allows 100% loan-to-purchase price

Pepper Money has introduced new Concessionary Purchase criteria which now allows 100% loan-to-purchase price. The...

Tembo unveils AI tool

Tembo has released details of its new AI-driven mortgage criteria tool. The tool, called...

JMT criteria now on Knowledge Bank

JMT Finance Ltd (JMT), the commercial property finance lender, has added its criteria to...

Increase in JBSP broker mortgage searches

Knowledge Bank's latest criteria activity index has found that brokers in the residential market were...

Repercussions of Covid still showing in criteria searches

Knowledge Bank latest tracker has revealed that advisers are working with a "significant" number...

Mortgage Brain improves lender insights offering

Mortgage Brain has upgraded its lender insights offering, available to lenders who use its...

MT Finance joins Knowledge Bank platform

MT Finance's short-term loan criteria in now available on the Knowledge Bank platform. Knowledge Bank...

Knowledge Bank adds secured loan provider to platform

Second charge lender, Evolution Money, has added its criteria to the Knowledge Bank platform. Knowledge Bank...

COMMENT

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

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Chancellor presses lenders to expand support for borrowers ahead of rate resets

The government has secured fresh commitments from major lenders to step up engagement with...

Suffolk BS tops £800m in mortgage assets after strong 2025 growth

Suffolk Building Society has passed £800m of mortgage assets for the first time after...

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...

Foundation returns with revised buy-to-let and residential mortgage range

Foundation has returned to the market with a revised product range across both buy-to-let...

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