Mortgages

West One goes live on Sourcing Brain and Criteria Brain

Mortgage Brain has revealed that West One has become the latest lender to go...

Access FS launches time-saving service

Mortgage and protection broker, Access Financial Services, has introduced a new administrative service for...

September a record-breaking month for Twenty7Tec searches

Twenty7tec has issued its findings based on its mortgage platform data for September 2022. September...

Smart Money People’s Lender Benchmark open for intermediary feedback

Smart Money People has opened its doors for intermediary feedback to be compiled for...

West One Loans launches into first-charge residential market

West One Loans has launched into the first-charge residential mortgage market with a selection...

Norton Home Loans appoints roving underwriter

Norton Home Loans has recruited Mandy Westby to become a roving underwriter, working with...

Skipton to launch new five-year mortgage range

Skipton Building Society is to launch a new range of five-year fixed rate mortgages...

Crystal Specialist Finance unveils new website

Specialist finance distributor, Crystal Specialist Finance, has launched a new website which focuses on...

Smartr365 calls for greater data transparency

17.5% of UK mortgage brokers say they have been held as ‘data prisoners’ -...

Scottish Building Society adopts LendingMetrics’ ADP

LendingMetrics has been appointed by Scottish Building Society to deliver its credit decisioning solution,...

Q&A: Chris Waind, business development manager, Central Trust

BestAdvice fires the questions at Chris Waind, Business Development Manager at Central Trust BestAdvice (BA): You...

Enra merges Vantage and Enterprise

Enra Specialist Finance has launched a new specialist finance broker, Aria Finance, by merging...

VAS Valuation Group joins trade body

VAS Valuation Group has become the latest Patron of the NACFB. It has vowed to...

Prime property owners facing “eye watering” energy price rises

Largemortgageloans.com (LML) has warned that prime property owners need to act now if they...

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Private credit poses challenges and opportunities for UK CROs

The global financial crash of 2008 revealed the dangers of financial contagion. What began as a collapse in the United States sub-prime mortgage market...

GIS must be at the heart of place-based policymaking

The UK is under increasing pressure to deliver more homes, strengthen national infrastructure, and meet ambitious environmental goals – from the New Towns Taskforce...

The PT is dead. Long live the broker!

Did you know that every time a borrower approaches their bank directly, a mortgage broker dies? I’m teasing, of course. They don’t really die....

Landlords defy the doom – the buy-to-let bounce-back

While the Bank of England recently voted to hold the interest rate at 4%, which will have been disappointing news to landlords who had...

The 12 Days of Christmas: Staying front of mind when clients go quiet

December has long been a quiet month for mortgage advisers. By mid-November, many client conversations slow or pause entirely, often with the familiar refrain:...

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Mental health emerges as leading cause of long-term sick leave, MetLife finds

Mental health conditions have become the leading cause of long-term sickness in the workplace,...

50-year mortgages risk leaving borrowers with heavy long-term costs

Mortgage specialists at Mojo Mortgages have warned that proposals for 50-year terms, recently raised...

Manufacturers press ministers to tackle late payments

Manufacturing SMEs have urged the government to strengthen protections against late payment after new...

MorganAsh backs inclusion drive but urges improvement in vulnerability data

MorganAsh has given its support to the Government’s refreshed Financial Inclusion Strategy, but warned...

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