Mortgages

Bluestone Mortgages appoints BDM for the South East

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the appointment of Steve Bailey as the South East of...

Perenna now on Sourcing Brain and Criteria Brain

Mortgage Brain has added Perenna to its Sourcing Brain and Criteria Brain platforms. Perenna specialises...

Virgin Money improves loan-to-income policy

Virgin Money has made a positive change to its loan-to-income (LTI) policy. The lender has...

Twenty7tec adds Perenna to its SOURCE module

Twenty7tec has added Perenna to its SOURCE module, providing advisers with access to a...

SimplyBiz adviser survey reveals overall positive outlook

SimplyBiz has announced the results of its annual member survey, designed to measure adviser...

Hinckley & Rugby BS partners with Complete FS

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has announced a partnership with mortgage packager Complete FS,...

Leeds Building Society makes further mortgage rate cuts

Leeds Building Society has revealed that it saw its busiest ever first working day...

Skipton cuts Track Record rate to lowest ever

Skipton Building Society will be reducing rates further across its mortgage product range tomorrow...

MPowered Mortgages unveils 0.30% cashback offer

MPowered Mortgages has launched cashback of 0.30% on all loan sizes up to £1.5...

Zephyr Homeloans cuts 2 & 5-year fixed rates

Zephyr Homeloans has made reductions across its five-year and two-year fixed rate mortgages. The reductions...

Newcastle Intermediaries unveils new Base Rate tracker range

Newcastle Intermediaries has launched a new range of Base Rate Tracker (BRT) products. The lender...

Vast majority of HLP advisers optimistic about the year ahead

A recent survey conducted by mortgage network, HLPartnership, (HLP) saw around 90% of its...

MHBS cuts fixed mortgage rates by 50bps

Market Harborough Building Society (MHBS) has reduced its residential and let fixed rates by...

2024 will be “breakthrough” year for mortgage tech

One Mortgage System (OMS) recently hosted its inaugural Tech Talks, an event designed to...

COMMENT

Why advisers can be part of the conveyancing team

There is a tendency to think the mortgage adviser’s involvement in conveyancing begins with recommending a firm and then largely ends once the client...

Why the AI revolution could be a golden age for financial advice

Every major technological shift creates the same debate: will it empower professionals to do more, or eventually replace them? Artificial intelligence is simply the latest...

Should mortgage advisers consider the emerging secondary market for life policies?

Mortgage advisers regularly help clients navigate major life changes. While much of the focus is naturally on borrowing, refinancing and insurance, there is another...

One mortgage journey no longer fits every borrower

In the mortgage market, we have lots of different ways of describing customers depending on where they are in their lives. We talk about...

Closing the protection gap starts with informed clients

Millions of people have no protection insurance coverage and could be left vulnerable in the event of a death in the family, serious illness...

Latest news

Advice firms step up technology use as integration remains key obstacle

Financial advice firms are taking a more proactive approach to technology, but integrating new...

Check launches mortgage readiness tool for prospective borrowers

Check.co.uk has added a mortgage readiness feature to its app, bringing together credit, affordability,...

Yorkshire BS team raises £1,000 with 198km treadmill challenge

Seven Yorkshire Building Society colleagues have completed a 198km treadmill ultramarathon to raise money...

Square 1 Media joins Momenti Group’s Observatory as corporate partner

Square 1 Media has become a corporate partner of The Observatory, the mortgage market...

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