Mortgages

Pepper Money in Open Banking partnership

Pepper Money has partnered with technology platform, Lending Score, to utilise opportunities from Open...

Reliance Bank introduces new key worker offering

Reliance Bank is launching a new Key Worker Mortgage range to both the intermediary...

Saffron for Intermediaries reduces raft of mortgage rates

Saffron for Intermediaries has announced improvements to its product range including its Self-Employed, Contractor,...

OMS updates Consumer Duty functionality

One Mortgage System (OMS) has announced updates to its dedicated Consumer Duty functionality on...

Knight Frank Finance selects FINPLAN Home from Twenty7tec

Knight Frank Finance has selected FINPLAN Home, the new end-to-end mortgage CRM platform from...

Pepper Money unveils limited edition for credit repair

Pepper Money has introduced a Limited Edition range of three-year fixed rate mortgages to...

Gateway Surveyors reappointed as Earl Shilton BS panel manager

Gateway Surveyors had been reappointed as panel manager for Earl Shilton Building Society. This follows...

Gen H makes third set of rate reductions in nine working days

Gen H has announced further rate reductions of up to 26 bps. This is the...

Coventry for intermediaries expands 95% LTV range

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced selected residential rates by up to 36bps, with fixed...

Hodge improves Professional Mortgage interest-only criteria

Hodge has announced changes to its Professional Mortgage, offering customers with complex incomes greater...

Fear of rejection stopping self-employed applying for mortgages

34% of self-employed individuals have never applied for a mortgage, according to the latest...

MPowered Mortgages reduces rates on two and three-year fixes

MPowered Mortgages has further reduced rates across its suite of two and three-year fixed...

The Leeds reduces 75%-80% LTV rates

Leeds Building Society made reduced rates on 75% and 80% loan to value (LTV)...

Suffolk BS unveils new expat BTL and self-build deals

Suffolk Building Society has introduced two new products to its range. The first is a...

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...

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Green rent cap plan could squeeze buy-to-let affordability

Green Party proposals to restrict private rent increases for three years could make it...

Firms’ confidence in FCA rises as satisfaction hits 79%

Confidence in the Financial Conduct Authority has increased, with almost eight in 10 regulated...

Westmarq challenges surveying ‘duopoly’ as it targets lender business

Westmarq has challenged mortgage lenders to move more of their valuation business away from...

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...

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