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Keystone joins SimplyBiz Mortgages panel

SimplyBiz Mortgages has announced its partnership with specialist buy-to-let lender Keystone Property Finance. With...

Black Book Finance reaches £1m Castle Trust milestone

Black Book Finance has completed £1 million worth of business with Castle Trust in...

Magellan partners with Black Book Finance

Magellan Homeloans is to now distribute its range of mortgage products through Black Book Finance. Black Book Finance...

Brilliant Solutions teams up with Landbay

Brilliant Solutions has partnered with peer-to-peer mortgage lender Landbay, to provide mortgage brokers and...

Tesco Bank adds network to panel

Tesco Bank has announced the addition of the Mortgage Intelligence network to its intermediary...

Pepper adds SMS to distribution network

Pepper Homeloans has extended its distribution network to include Solent Mortgage Services (SMS).  Hampshire-based SMS will...

Paradigm adds the Earl Shilton to lender panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added the Earl Shilton Building Society to its lender panel.  Members firms...

Magellan products now available through PMS 

Magellan Homeloans' range of products are now available to members of the PMS Mortgage...

Aldermore outlines retention fee offering

Aldermore is to launch a retention procuration fee for brokers on 3 April 2017. Procuration fees will be available...

Magellan partners with 3mc

Magellan Homeloans is to distribute its full range of mortgage products via the specialist distributor...

Pepper expands network distribution

Pepper Homeloans has extended its distribution network to include Ingard. The Essex and Chester based...

Accord extends retention proc fee pilot

Accord Mortgages is broad ending its pilot scheme to pay brokers a procuration fee for...

Lender-broker relationship explored in new paper

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has published a new discussion paper, Insights into...

The Leeds to pay retention fees

The Leeds Building Society will introduce retention procuration fees later this year. The mutual will pay...

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

SortRefer marks 17 years with record month for instructions and completions

SortRefer has marked its 17th anniversary after reporting its strongest monthly performance to date...

The Mortgage Works cuts buy-to-let rates on selected new business deals

The Mortgage Works is cutting selected buy-to-let and let-to-buy rates by up to 0.20...

Primis promotes three in push to expand recruitment and regional broker support

Primis has promoted three senior executives as it seeks to recruit more adviser firms...

Santander cuts higher LTV rates for first-time buyers and home movers

Santander is cutting selected fixed mortgage rates across its first-time buyer, home mover and...

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