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TFC Homeloans secures CCA permissions from regulator

TFC Homeloans has been granted full CCA permissions by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)....

LMS partners with Metro Bank

LMS is to undertake general panel management for Metro Bank. This will allow Metro...

Pink brokers get free SMP membership

All Pink network advisers have been given free membership of Society of Mortgage Professionals...

Fleet Mortgages expands distribution

Directly authorised (DA) members of Legal & General Mortgage Club will have now have...

Paradigm in Scottish registration drive

Paradigm Mortgage Services will be exhibiting at this week’s Financial Services Expo (FSE) Glasgow...

Why introducers are crucial to your business development

I’m sure we’d all agree that developing an advisory business, and bringing in clients,...

Broker confidence in intermediary market on the rise

Broker confidence has been building, with figures in the final quarter of 2014 closer...

NatWest IS to make widespread rate cuts

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is making rate reductions across the vast majority of its residential mortgage range...

TFC Homeloans on recruitment drive

Specialist packager TFC Homeloans is looking to hire a new sales team to manage...

Coventry Intermediaries cuts rates by up to 20 bps

Coventry Intermediaries has reduced its mortgage rates by 0.20 percentage points. New deals include the...

Foundation Home Loans launches into buy-to-let market

Foundation Home Loans (FHL) has unveiled its buy-to-let proposition today. It will be distributed exclusively through the intermediary...

Buy-to-let boom predicted for 2015

Complete FS believes 2015 will be a bumper year for the buy-to-let market. The the...

First distributor for Foundation Home Loans revealed

Connect Mortgage Club (CMC) has added Foundation Home Loans (FHL) to its panel of...

Openwork Conveyancing unveiled

Openwork has launched a new conveyancing proposition, developed with United Legal Services (ULS Group). ...

COMMENT

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...

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

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Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost?...

MIMHC makes final call as charity lunch nears capacity

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC) has made a final call for industry...

Virgin Money to move eligible product transfers to Nationwide from October

Virgin Money is changing its residential product transfer process, with some customers whose deals...

Skipton cuts fixed rates and widens home mover range

Skipton Building Society is reducing rates across its fixed mortgage range by an average...

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