Distribution

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...

Kensington cuts packager rates

Mortgage distributor 3mc has confirmed that Kensington is cutting its rates on its specialist...

Vida Homeloans partners with Mortgage Intelligence

Vida Homeloans has been appointed to the Mortgage Intelligence panel of lenders for both...

NatWest IS to pay 20bps broker retention fee

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has become the latest lender to address the issue of retention...

Santander introduces minimum proc fee

Santander has made changes to its new business procuration fee policy. It has introduced a minimum procuration...

Key mortgage hire at HSBC

HSBC has appointed Jackie Uhi to the role of head of mortgage distribution. Uhi joins HSBC...
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COMMENT

networks

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

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...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Latest news

Buy-to-let

ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...
News

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...
Appointments

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...
funding

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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