Mortgages

HTB appoints chief risk officer

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Paul Collyer as its new...

TMA: use tech to deal with product maturation spike

TMA Club is calling on advisers who aren’t doing so already to start using...

MoneySuperMarket extends partnership with Optimus

Conveyancing panel management specialist, Optimus, has announced that its agreement with MoneySuperMarket has been...

Smaller lenders key to meeting affordability requirements

Data from MBT Affordability suggests that whole of market research that includes smaller lenders...

Castle Trust cuts rates by 0.25 points

Castle Trust Bank has reduced rates on all of its term products by 0.25...

Legal & General launches criteria and affordability tool

Legal & General has unveiled SmartrFit, a mortgage criteria search tool and affordability calculator...

Knowledge Bank: people desperate to get on the property ladder

Knowledge Bank has revealed the details of the leading criteria searches made on its...

Paradigm issues self-employed lending guide

Paradigm Mortgage Services  has launched a new ebook for advisers called ‘Lending to the self-employed’. The...

Buy-to-let rate cuts at Pepper Money

Pepper Money has reduced rates on a selection of its buy-to-let mortgage products. The specialist...

MCI expands lender panel with mutual appointment

MCI mortgage club has added the Buckinghamshire Building Society to its panel. The club said...

Bluestone Mortgages appoints head of sales & marketing

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the appointment of Reece Beddall as its new head of sales...

Smartr365 agrees digital ID verification partnership

Mortgage platform, Smartr365, has signed a new exclusive partnership with Digidentity, a digital ID provider. Smartr365...

Accord extends 90% LTV broker-exclusive availability period

Accord Mortgages is extending its 90% LTV home purchase range, available for first-time buyers...

Covid: affordability ‘biggest challenge’ for brokers

The vast majority (94%) of brokers admit that they currently need to shop around...

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AMI Protection Viewpoint 2025: Turning challenges into opportunities

Delivering better outcomes and protecting more customers is all in a day’s work for protection advisers. But in today’s fast-paced, constantly evolving environment, navigating...

Private credit poses challenges and opportunities for UK CROs

The global financial crash of 2008 revealed the dangers of financial contagion. What began as a collapse in the United States sub-prime mortgage market...

GIS must be at the heart of place-based policymaking

The UK is under increasing pressure to deliver more homes, strengthen national infrastructure, and meet ambitious environmental goals – from the New Towns Taskforce...

The PT is dead. Long live the broker!

Did you know that every time a borrower approaches their bank directly, a mortgage broker dies? I’m teasing, of course. They don’t really die....

Landlords defy the doom – the buy-to-let bounce-back

While the Bank of England recently voted to hold the interest rate at 4%, which will have been disappointing news to landlords who had...

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TRM launches tool to help advisers assess clients’ financial shortfalls

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has introduced a Shortfall Needs Analysis Calculator designed...

HTB completes £1.1m Midlands refinancing in four hours

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a £1.1m residential investment refinancing in the Midlands...

Brookfield Surveyors joins BDLA as associate member

Brookfield Surveyors has become an associate member of the Bridging and Development Lenders Association...

Shawbrook backs 42-home London scheme with £13m development facility

Shawbrook has partnered with P10 Financial Group to provide a £13m development facility that...

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