Mortgages

Rebrand for eTech Solutions

eTech Solutions has rebranded to CoreLogic UK. While all services remain as before, the...

Foundation Home Loans cuts core buy-to-let rates 

Foundation Home Loans has made a series of rate reductions across a number of...

Self-employed struggling to be approved by lenders

There is an effective ‘access gap’ for self-employed borrowers, compared to those with more...

Stonebridge lending volumes up 11%

Mortgage and insurance network Stonebridge has published its 2019 trading results. Mortgage completions nudged £8...

OMS integrates credit reporting facilities

One Mortgage System (OMS) has integrated UK Credit Ratings into its live platform. The move...

The Hinckley & Rugby to split mortgages

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society will now allow mortgages to be split, in...

Pepper Money breaks £1bn barrier

Pepper Money has revealed that it completed more than £1bn worth of first and...

The Mansfield backs Scotland First Home Fund initiative

The Mansfield Building Society has made its standard residential and specialist Versatility mortgage range...

Pepper Money introduces electronic identity verification

Pepper Money hade introduced automatic electronic identification and residency verification (E-ID), removing the requirement...

The Yorkshire eases self-employed evidence requirements

The Yorkshire Building Society is cutting the number of years’ evidence required from those...

Hodge aligns minimum ages of interest-only products

Hodge has lowered the minimum age of its Residential Interest Only mortgage from 55+...

PRIMIS adds Vida Homeloans to lender panel

PRIMIS Mortgage Network is welcoming specialist lender, Vida Homeloans, onto its lender panel. Members of...

Beaumont to become The Mortgage Lender chief exec

Peter Beaumont is to head up The Mortgage Lender following record performance in 2019...

BoE: December rise in approvals

The Bank of England has reported that net mortgage borrowing increased to £4.6 billion...

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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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