Distribution

PMS and Sesame completions up 18%

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has reported that combined mortgage completions in 2021 through its...

Scottish Widows appoints intermediary distribution director

Scottish Widows has appointed Ranila Ravi-Burslem as its new intermediary distribution director, working across...

Norton Home Loans joins New Leaf lender panel

Norton Home Loans has been added to the lender panel of network New Leaf. Members...

TMA Club adds The Loan Partnership to panel

TMA Club has added master broker, The Loan Partnership, to its panel. Through the...

Paradigm Mortgage Services appoints senior relationship manager

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced the appointment of a new senior relationship manager. Michael...

Vida to strengthen key partner relationships

Vida says it is to improve its sales proposition by moving to a focussed...

IMLA: good lender-broker relationships essential

The vast majority of lenders see advisers’ work as essential to helping non-standard borrowers,...

CSF to support Teenage Cancer Trust during 2022

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has confirmed Teenage Cancer Trust as its charity partner for...

Two senior appointments for Tenet&You

Tenet Group has appointed Simon Broadley as managing director of its owned adviser business,...

Recognise Bank partners with Galliard Homes and Reflex Bridging

Recognise Bank has agreed a multi-million pound 'loan on loan' partnership with Reflex Bridging,...

Brightstar Group buys out private equity investor

The leadership team of the Brightstar Group has regained a controlling stake in the...

CHL Mortgages joins Brilliant Solutions’ panel

CHL Mortgages has been added to Brilliant Solutions’ lending panel. This partnership will provide...

Leeds BS appoints director of mortgage distribution

Leeds Building Society has appointed Martese Carton to the newly-created role of director of...

TMA Club adds CHL Mortgages to panel

TMA Club has announced the addition of CHL Mortgages to its lender panel. Directly Authorised (DA) brokers who are members of TMA will have access to CHL Mortgages’ range...

COMMENT

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...

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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...

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...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

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

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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