Mortgages

Smartr365 integrates with Mortgage Engine for automated lender DIPs

Smartr365 is to integrate with Mortgage Engine to improve its direct-to-lender connections and provide...

Execution-only demeans the concept of advice

The latest figures from UK Finance on product transfers should give everyone who advocates...

Twenty7Tec integrates with MortgageApply

Bluecoat Software has announced an integration with Twenty7Tec Group. The new partnership will allow users...

Climate change portfolio assessment service for lenders launched

Landmark Valuation Services has unveiled a new Climate Change Portfolio Assessment service design to...

Newcastle Intermediaries cuts rates on buy-to-let

Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced rates on its five-year buy-to-let mortgage deals by up to...

First female chair for IMLA

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has announced that Louisa Sedgwick, director of sales...

Foundation Home Loans moves into 90% LTV arena

Foundation Home Loans has made a series of changes to its residential mortgage product range.  Its...

Dynamo teams up with Mortgage Engine

Dynamo has partnered with technology firm Mortgage Engine. It is the first mortgage brokerage to...

Quarterly rise in first-time buyers in London

UK Finance has reported that there were 11,510 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

AMI reveals board election results

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has completed its election process. The results are as...

The Ipswich to broaden network distribution

The Ipswich Building Society is widening its distribution through a number of network partners. The first...

Accord cuts 90% and 95% LTV rates

Accord Mortgages is cutting rates by up to 10bps on selected 90% and 95%...

MFS joins Specialist Financial Services’ 2020 roadshows

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has partnered up with lending hub Specialist Financial Services (SFS)...

The Right Mortgage to hold over 70 events in 2020

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has announced its events calendar for next year. It is...

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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