Mortgages

Recognise Bank appoints VAS Panel

Recognise Bank has appointed VAS Panel to speed up valuation turnaround times and give...

Affordability and remortgaging were top Q1 queries for Primis

Primis Mortgage Network has revealed that the network’s product desk helped appointed representative (AR)...

New investment for Tembo

Digital mortgage platform Tembo has secured £5 million of investment. Tembo has welcomed two new...

360 Dotnet and Alexander Hall extend partnership

360 Dotnet is celebrating a three-year contract renewal with Alexander Hall. Since 2018, Alexander...

Saffron BS reintroduces FTB two-year fixes

Saffron Building Society has announced a number of product relaunches and refreshes across its...

Most brokers believe affordability has become more complex

94% of brokers say affordability has become even more complex in the last 12...

CLSQ unveils strategic development director

CLSQ has announced that Spencer Wyer has joined the group as strategic development director. Wyer...

Just Mortgages adds 48 self-employed advisers in Q1

Just Mortgages has welcomed 48 new advisers to its thriving self-employed division in Q1,...

Paradigm releases latest Consumer Duty video for advisers

Paradigm has launched its latest video providing further information and guidance for intermediaries on...

West One adds PMS Mortgage Club to panel

West One Loans has added PMS Mortgage Club to its residential intermediary panel. The partnership...

Record Stamp Duty payment total in 2022-23

Homebuyers paid out a record of £15.4bn in Stamp Duty Land Tax in the...

Right to Buy open to more than two million customers

There are more than two million potential customers for Right to Buy in England...

One in five online valuation requests go on to sell

Around one in five people who request an online valuation go on to sell...

L&G: mortgage activity levels fuelled by financial gifting

Legal & General has revealed that first-time buyers are still pursuing their home ownership...

COMMENT

The industry needs to prepare now for Your First Home

The government’s announcement of the Your First Home scheme is genuinely positive news, and anything that boosts confidence among first-time buyers and people trying...

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...

Latest news

Net zero rules targeted in housebuilding shake-up

The Conservatives have pledged to strip as much as £50,000 from the cost of...

Tories put stamp duty abolition at heart of housing shake-up

The Conservatives have pledged again to scrap stamp duty as part of a housing...

Target Group adds Carla Stent to board

Target Group has appointed Carla Stent as a non-executive director, adding further financial services,...

Later life lending summit to focus on changing advice needs

Mortgage advisers will be encouraged to consider how longer borrowing lives and increasingly complex...

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