Mortgages

Mortgage Broker Tools surprised by demand for MBT Affordability

In a week since its official launch, MBT Affordability has passed more than 300,000...

Saffron improves self-build offering

The Saffron Building Society has made changes to its self-build mortgages following feedback from...

Criteria Hub extends multi-search functionality

Mortgage Brain has updates its criteria based sourcing solution, Criteria Hub, in order to...

Fleet Mortgages returns with full product range

Fleet Mortgages has announced its return to the mortgage market with a full product range...

Buy-to-let remortgage transaction levels set to fall

Paragon has claimed that higher tax costs will lead to a lower level of...

One in three home movers are now ‘last-time buyers’

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has reported that almost 200,000 owner occupier housing...

Kensington appoints three new ADMs

Kensington Mortgages has announced the appointment of three new account development managers (ADMs). Working for...

LendInvest added to SimplyBiz Mortgages panel

LendInvest has joined SimplyBiz Mortgages’ lender panel. LendInvest offers buy-to-let mortgages to professional landlords on...

Pepper Money revises sales structure

Pepper Money has refreshed its sSales regions and team structure with the aim to...

Vida intermediary competition to ‘fly’ Concorde

Vida Homeloans is to hold an event for mortgage intermediaries at an air museum,...

Glenhawk unveils free client valuations 

Glenhawk has introduced a free valuation offering. This follows last September’s offer to pay for...

HSBC joins Connect for Intermediaries’ mainstream panel

Connect for Intermediaries has appointed HSBC to its mainstream residential panel for its network. HSBC...

CLS Money appoints sales manager

CLS Money has made a new appointment to oversee its expanding advice team. Alec McCubbing...

Precise Mortgages appoints pair of BDMs

Precise Mortgages has appointed two new business development managers (BDMs) to support brokers in...

COMMENT

The uncomfortable truth about the later life lending market

The headlines around the latest Equity Release Council figures released this month all suggested growth. But I think we need to have an honest...

Are we actually set up to support first-time buyers?

After a summer spent thinking it over, this time of year is often the point where first time buyers decide whether they're going to...

Leasehold reform has a September window – will Burnham use it?

At the time of writing, the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill still has no published First Reading date.  But is it imminent? Andy Burnham entered...

Advisers need an answer for evolving landlords

It’s a tough time to be a landlord. The succession of changes to tax and regulation made in recent years - with the Renters’...

AI doesn’t remove bias. It gives us the chance to manage it

One of the great promises of artificial intelligence has always been objectivity. Machines, unlike people, do not have bad days. They do not favour...

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Target Group launches staff AI programme for regulated finance

Target Group has launched an AI Champion programme to encourage the responsible use of...

Employment history rises up brokers’ mortgage search agenda

Employment history became a more pressing concern for mortgage brokers in July as changing...

Half of homes taking longer to sell as regional divide widens

Homes in almost half of Great Britain’s local authority areas are taking longer to...

The uncomfortable truth about the later life lending market

The headlines around the latest Equity Release Council figures released this month all suggested...

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