Mortgages

Pivotal Growth acquires Embrace Financial Services and First2Protect

Pivotal Growth has acquired Embrace Financial Services and First2Protect from LSL Property Services Plc. Embrace...

March gave us a lot to think about

March as a month certainly gave the mortgage market a lot to digest and...

Brokers expect adverse credit challenges in 2023

Customers with adverse credit will find it most challenging to access a mortgage in...

ONP sets new remortgage record

ONP solicitors processed more than 3,000 remortgage transactions on Monday 3 April, its busiest...

AMI reveals board election results

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has completed its annual election process, where a...

Smart Money People’s Benchmark open for broker feedback

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

Coventry for Intermediaries cuts residential rates

Coventry for Intermediaries has reduced selected two and three-year fixed residential rates by up...

Bluestone Mortgages introduces platform for specialist cases

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the launch of its new digital platform, Bluesky. The platform has...

TRM network to hold regional roadshows in April

The Right Mortgage and Protection Network has announced the launch of its Regional April...

OSB Group partners with Paylink Solutions

OSB Group has entered into a multi-term partnership with fintech Paylink Solutions. Utilising Paylink’s Embark...

Acre secures £6.5m investment

Acre has secured £6.5 million in investment to grow its technology platform and to...

Paradigm member firms given access to LendInvest’s residential offering

Paradigm has announced its member firms now have access to LendInvest’s new range of...

Landbay reintroduces green five-year fixed rate products

Buy-to-let specialist lender Landbay has reintroduced its green five-year fixed rate range and has...

Trade and representative bodies launch fourth iteration of BASPI

Trade and representative bodies representing the legal, surveying, estate agency and property management sectors,...

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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