Mortgages

BuildLoan expands exclusive product range

Specialist self and custom-build mortgage distributor BuildLoan has announced a new range of products...

Countrywide Surveying Services renews agreement with Leeds BS

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

MPowered Mortgages launches 85% LTV mortgages

MPowered Mortgages has expanded its prime residential offering with the launch of 85% LTV...

Mortgage Brain connects Acre to Santander

Mortgage Brain has developed its API to enable brokers using Acre’s mortgage platform the...

Hodge makes board appointment

Hodge has strengthened its board with the appointment of a new senior independent director. Penny...

Foundation Home Loans reprices residential mortgage offering

Foundation Home Loans has announced the repricing of its full residential mortgage range for...

AMI to provide update on Inclusion and Equity in mortgage sector

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) is to hold a webinar to provide an...

Nationwide’s APPLY integration rolled out to all Twenty7Tec users

Nationwide Building Society applications are now available through Twenty7tec’s APPLY module following a successful...

Stonebridge invests in new promotions approval tech

Stonebridge has developed and launched new technology for financial promotions submission, approval, and management...

Gatehouse Bank continues carbon neutral status

Gatehouse Bank has maintained its carbon neutral status for 2021. Carbon Neutral Britain has...

Brightstar Group marks World Mental Health Day

The Brightstar Group is marking World Mental Health Day with a series of activities...

Mortgage Magic unveils online chat functionality

Mortgage Magic has introduced online chat functionality, enabling brokers to chat with clients through...

MBE London to offer economic and industry insights

The organisers of Mortgage Business Expo London 2022 say the event is going to...

Just Mortgages sees women outnumber men in broker academy applications

National brokerage Just Mortgages has revealed that there were more female than male applicants...

COMMENT

I’m 49. My dad’s 73. Between us we’ve found the hole in later life lending

I turn 50 in December, and the marketing has already started. Funeral plans, over-50s life cover, “guaranteed acceptance” adverts wedged between the football highlights....

Buying scale was phase one. What happens next?

Mortgage distribution is in a race for scale. Capital wants market share. Consolidators want distribution. Networks want advisers. Good businesses are commanding serious valuations. If I...

Slow completions are costing brokers. Five steps can help protect their pipelines

Through my conversations with mortgage brokers, and Landmark’s work across the wider home-moving process, I see the same pattern repeatedly. Once a mortgage has...

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...

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Wider mortgage options put borrower circumstances in focus on Lenders Live

Borrowers with historic credit problems and smaller deposits have more routes to explore, but...

Christodoulides joins ConveyBuddy as head of distribution

Former NatWest national account manager Luke Christodoulides has joined ConveyBuddy as head of distribution. Christodoulides...

MorganAsh adds BSL translation to customer websites

MorganAsh has introduced British Sign Language translations across its corporate website and itswhoiam.me consumer...

London flat owners face highest risk of resale losses

Nearly four in 10 London flats resold after being held for between five and...

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