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LSL Property Services buys Personal Touch

LSL Property Services plc (LSL) has acquired Personal Touch Financial Services Limited (PTFS) and...

LendInvest forms 200-strong buy-to-let broker panel

LendInvest has announced the formation of a national broker panel, comprising more than 200...

Together teams up with Paradigm Mortgage Services

Together has joins forces with Paradigm Mortgage Services to offer its range of first...

OneFamily joins Personal Touch equity release panel

OneFamily has become the latest lender to be added to Personal Touch’s equity release...

West One Loans teams up with Fluent Money Group

Second charge lender West One Loans has partnered with Fluent Money Group to offer...

Landbay added to Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced the addition of Landbay to its mortgage club panel. Paradigm...

Complete FS partners with AToM in One Mortgage System

Complete FS has become the second packager, after AToM, to go live with One...

Simplybiz adds Landbay to panel

Landbay Partners has joined SimplyBiz Mortgages’ lender panel. All SimplyBiz Mortgages' members now have to...

JLM Mortgage Services appoints COO

Network JLM Mortgage Services has announced the appointment of Daniel Leach as its new...

Legal & General Mortgage Club events calendar published

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced its 2018 calendar of events. The half...

JLM network to offer ‘robo proposition’

JLM Mortgage Services has become the first mortgage network to launch the first stage of...

Paradigm lender and provider award winners announced

Paradigm Mortgage Services and Paradigm Protect have announced the winners of their annual Lender and...

Brilliant Solutions expands lender panel

Brilliant Solutions has added the Tipton & Coseley Building Society to its lender panel.  The...

Vida Homeloans added to PTFS panel

Vida Homeloans has been appointed to Personal Touch Financial Services’ lender panel to offer...

COMMENT

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

Latest news

First-time buyers turning to side hustles to bridge deposit gap

Almost half of aspiring first-time buyers are using secondary income streams to help fund...

Vida cuts residential rates and loosens criteria for self-employed and contractor borrowers

Vida has reduced selected residential mortgage rates by up to 106 basis points and...

Iress adds AI underwriting tool to The Exchange in protection push

Iress has struck a deal with The Interesting Life Company to offer an AI-powered...

Property firms still relying on manual checks as AI fraud risk grows

More than half of identity verification checks in UK finance and property businesses are...

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