Mortgages

MPowered Mortgages appoints key account manager for the South 

MPowered Mortgages has announced the promotion of Simon Clark to key account manager (KAM)...

Pepper Money cuts residential and DMP rates

Pepper Money has reduced rates across its residential range by up yo 0.90% and...

LendInvest expands residential mortgage availability

LendInvest has launched its full residential mortgage product range to all UK intermediaries, aimed...

Stonebridge introduces new AI functionality

Stonebridge has added new functionality to its Revolution system to help AR firms and...

Rockstead joins Equity Release Council

Rockstead has announced that it has become an Equity Release Council associate member. Rockstead...

TML provides self-employed offer in 6 working days

The Mortgage Lender (TML) recently progressed a self-employed residential application to offer in six...

New products and rate cuts from Virgin Money

Virgin Money is making changes to a number of mortgage products on Tuesday 21...

Repaying existing mortgage remains top reason for equity release

New data from Canada Life has revealed the top motivations for customers taking out...

SmartrFit adds Gen H affordability calculator

Legal & General has announced the addition of Gen H (Generation Home)’s affordability calculator...

Shawbrook acquires Bluestone Mortgages

Shawbrook has announced the acquisition of Bluestone Mortgages (BML) in a cash and share...

Paradigm parters with West One for residential mortgages

Paradigm has announced the launch of West One's residential proposition to its member firms. Paradigm member...

CSS and Family BS extends lead valuation partnership

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS), a supplier of valuation panel management services, has announced the...

MPowered Mortgages ups five-year cashback & cuts two-year fixed rates

MPowered Mortgages has increased cashback on five-year products, whilst also reducing rates on two-year...

Leeds BS appoints head of intermediary partnerships

James O’Reilly has been promoted to head of intermediary partnerships at Leeds Building Society,...

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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