Mortgages

PRIMIS product desk queries up 10% month-on-month

PRIMIS Mortgage Network supported Appointed Representative (AR) advisers with 2,123 queries in July, 10% higher...

Accord Mortgages extends API availability

Accord Mortgages has launched its software to all brokers who use Iress, Twenty7Tec and...

Self-employed homeowners having debt difficulties

A third of self-employed homeowners have increased their unsecured debts and a quarter have...

Fall in ‘furlough friendly’ mortgage searches

Legal & General Mortgage Club’s SmartrCriteria platform saw 'furlough friendly' mortgage searches fall by...

Hodge appoints new chief finance officer

Hodge has announced the appointment of Jan Preece as its chief financial officer. Preece (pictured)...

Smartr365 integrates with four lenders via Iress Lender Connect

Smartr365 has connected with TSB, Aldermore, Leeds Building Society and Accord Mortgages via its...

Pepper launches new limited edition deals

Pepper Money has unveiled new Limited Edition residential and buy-to-let products, including its lowest...

De-mystifying offset mortgages: part 2

In the second article in his two-part series, Jonathan Stinton, head of intermediary relationships...

OSB Group renews Phoebus contract

OSB Group (OSB) and Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) have agreed a new five-year contract. The...

Accord cuts rates by up to 40 bps

Accord Mortgages has withdrawn its current range and will replace it at 9am on...

Twenty7Tec integrates Accord into APPLY

Twenty7Tec has announced that following a trial, Accord has been added to its APPLY...

New website for Pepper Money

Pepper Money has unveiled its website with improved navigation and features. The new website features...

Newcastle Intermediaries cuts higher LTV rates

Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced rates by up to 0.41 percentage points on its higher...

Mortgage Vision masterclasses back to face-to-face

Mortgage Brain is to hold its Mortgage Vision events in 10 locations across the...

COMMENT

You own the shares, but are you really just the custodian?

I've built three businesses and I've said the same thing most entrepreneurs have probably said to their mates and family at some point: "Give...

The FCA protection market study shouldn’t ignore redundancy

Considering a third of employers are likely to implement staff redundancies by January 2027, according to Acas, redundancy cover shouldn’t be ignored in wider...

If AI gives us more time to think, we must learn how to think well

The great promise of AI in financial services is usually expressed in terms of what it can remove. Less administration, less duplication, fewer manual...

The right scrutiny is a precursor of growing lending safely

Credit markets have always had to accommodate change, but there are periods when the assumptions on which they have been built begin to move...

Only one in five of your clients thinks your fee was justified

You know the moment. 40 minutes in. Gone well. They like you, you like them, everyone's getting on. Then you have to say the fee. And...

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Just 16% of full-time workers have income protection

Only 16% of full-time workers have income protection - highlighting a significant protection gap...

Goldman Sachs reduces Secure Trust Bank holding below 3%

Goldman Sachs has reduced its disclosed voting interest in Secure Trust Bank from 3.15%...

Global equity release lending forecast to treble to $52bn by 2035

Annual equity release lending worldwide is forecast to reach $52 billion by 2035, almost...

Buy-to-let yields climb to 15-year high as regional returns strengthen

Gross buy-to-let yields reached 7.22% in the third quarter of 2026, their highest level...

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