Mortgages

Smartr365 teams up with Brilliant Solutions Mortgage Club

Mortgage platform Smartr365 has partnered with Brilliant Solutions Mortgage Club. Advisers from Brilliant Solutions...

Teachers for Intermediaries joins PMS and Sesame lender panels

PMS Mortgage Club and Sesame Network, have added the Teachers for Intermediaries range of...

Just Mortgages chooses 11 new trainees for broker academy

11 new brokers will begin training with Just Mortgages’ broker academy in the New...

SMP issues SMCR guide for mortgage brokers

The Society of Mortgage Professionals (SMP) has produced a good practice guide in collaboration...

Accord revises buy-to-let minimum income requirement

Accord Buy To Let has made changes to criteria and documentation requirements, in a...

Stonebridge updates Revolution with ID verification

Mortgage and insurance network Stonebridge has launched RevolutionID, new functionality including ID and address-verification...

Mortgage Brain reveals Affordability Hub pilot

Mortgage Brain is piloting Affordability Hub with Countrywide and Openwork Advisers. This first phase...

Coventry for Intermediaries cuts buy-to-let rates

Coventry for Intermediaries has reduced rates on five-year fixed standard buy-to-let and portfolio landlord...

Metro Bank makes buy-to-let rate cuts

Metro Bank has reduced interest rates by 0.2 percentage points across its fixed rate...

Foundation Home Loans partners with mortgage club

Foundation Home Loans has announced a new relationship with MCI Club. The lender is joining...

Promise Solutions’ first mortgage advisory division goes live

Promise Mortgages has announced that operations have begun in its new first mortgage advisory division. It...

First live transaction on Mortgage Brain’s Lendex

Mortgage Brain has revealed the completion of the first live transaction on Lendex, its...

New South East BDM for Castle Trust

Castle Trust has appointed James Adkin as business development manager (BDM) for the South...

November “a month of massive change in mortgage criteria searching”

Knowledge Bank has revealed the most popular criteria searches that brokers conducted in November. In...

COMMENT

Advisers should be brave enough to drown out the noise

If you thought the economic and mortgage market commentary had been particularly noisy recently, I suspect you haven't heard anything yet, because with the...

Expat buy-to-let: a smaller world, a bigger picture

There has been no shortage of gloomy commentary about buy-to-let of late, so you might wonder why anyone living overseas would want to invest...

Taking the anxiety out of finance

It’s an anxious time for mortgage borrowers. A recent study by Handelsbanken Wealth found that the proportion of UK adults apprehensive about making mortgage...

Cashback should put conveyancing into the advice conversation

One of the more interesting findings from our latest quarterly statistics was the position of Nationwide Building Society, which accounted for 25% of all...

Why ownership structure matters in buy-to-let

It's a scenario brokers encounter every day. Two landlord clients approach them about the same type of buy-to-let property, with similar levels of equity...

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‘The Godfather’ joins Mortgage’s Got Talent judging panel

John ‘The Godfather’ Malone has been recruited as a judge for Mortgage’s Got Talent,...

Royal London introduces AI menopause support tool for staff

Royal London has launched an AI-powered tool designed to help employees and managers access...

Your First Home delays could stall first-time buyer market

Delays in launching the government's Your First Home scheme could cause first-time buyers to...

Foundation recruits former Metro Bank BDM to cover eastern region

Foundation has appointed Foz Ahmad as regional account manager for the East, bringing 12...

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