Distribution

AToM wins Precise award

All Types of Mortgages Ltd (AToM) has been awarded Top Volume Producer for Residential...

Platform offers its lowest ever two-year fix

Platform has launched its lowest ever residential two-year fixed rate mortgage at 1.64%. It...

3mc celebrates record year for growth

Mortgage distributor 3mc has processed enquiries totalling £1.6 billion and completed nearly £270 million...

Mortgage Advice Bureau in sponsorship deal with Derby County FC

Mortgage Advice Bureau has embarked a three-year sponsorship deal with Derby County Football...

Complete FS assisting MCI Club

Complete FS has been appointed as the specialist mortgage distribution channel for the...

BoI UK launches intermediary pilot

Bank of Ireland for Intermediaries is rolling out a pilot to sell mortgages in...

‘Mortgage into retirement’ options still available

Brightstar Financial has publicised that ‘mortgage into retirement’ options remain available within the intermediary...

Manor Mortgages chooses second charge preferred provider

Manor Mortgages has appointed Promise Solutions as its preferred provider of secured loans for...

Ezbob reaching out to all mortgage brokers

Ezbob, the online short term commercial lender, is looking to attract further numbers of...

SMS expands lending panel

Solent Mortgage Services (SMS) has added The Mansfield Building Society to its panel of...

Mortgage Brain to sponsor new broker award

Mortgage Brain is sponsoring the Independent Mortgage Broker award at The ESTAS 2015. The...

Connect Mortgage Club appoints new compliance manager

Connect Mortgage Club (CMC) has appointed Paul Simons as the network's compliance manager. Simons previously...

Chase de Vere fined over Keydata sales failures

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Chase de Vere Independent Financial Advisers £560,000...

Connect Mortgage Club gets full CCL permissions

Connect Mortgage Club (CMC), the buy-to-let network specialist for brokers, has just been granted...

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...

Latest news

Skipton cuts fixed rates and widens home mover range

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

Quantum Mortgages promotes Mihramane and Ajaib

Quantum Mortgages has made two internal promotions across its sales and completions teams as...

Complex incomes hindering aspiring Scottish buyers

More than half of Scottish adults with complex incomes who do not own a...

MAB adds three senior hires across marketing, finance and technology

Mortgage Advice Bureau has strengthened its executive team with three senior appointments spanning marketing,...

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