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New chairman at the Buckinghamshire BS

The Buckinghamshire Building Society has announced the appointment of Dick Jenkins as the new...

3mc adopts OMS platform

One Mortgage System (OMS), the processing platform for brokers and packagers, has been adopted...

New chairman for Rightmove

Rightmove has announced the appointment of Andrew Fisher as non-executive chairman with effect from...

New equity release product “launched every 48 hours”

Advisers and their customers now have over 314 equity release plan options – an...

Landlords in Scotland maintain confidence in sector

Landlords in Scotland are committing to continuing to rent private properties signalling confidence in...

Simon Carr rejoins Promise Solutions

Simon Carr, formerly a director at the specialist lending packager and broker, Promise Solutions,...

The Mortgage Lender cuts complex rates

The Mortgage Lender is reducing selected residential products and introducing a new RL0 category with...

Advisers want equity release education to boost market in 2020

Advisers think better education for customers is the number one factor for making equity...

Small increase in UK property transactions

HMRC has reported that the provisional seasonally adjusted estimate of UK property transactions for...

Record-breaking app volumes for Stonebridge

Stonebridge has revealed that it broke its record for lending applications submitted during October...

Fluent Money appoints group chief technology officer

Specialist lending distributor, Fluent Money Group, has appointed Steve Strickland-Wright to the newly created...

Affordable home completions up by one-fifth

Latest figures from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government have revealed that...

Chief examiner in regulated equity release appointed

Graham Evans, head of compliance at Equity Release Supermarket (ERS), has been appointed the...

New London venue for MBE Expo

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced the dates for its 2020 Expos in Leeds...

COMMENT

The case for tech fluency before AI adoption in the mutual sector

It often feels like there is only one conversation taking place in financial services at the moment: artificial intelligence. Whether it’s trade shows and...

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

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Brilliant racks up a memorable afternoon for charity

Brilliant Solutions was on cue at Rileys as 70 players and several late arrivals...

Rayner rules out rent controls

Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has ruled out rent controls in England, providing greater certainty...

Mortgage Brain adds Uinsure home insurance quotes to CRM platform

Mortgage Brain has integrated Uinsure with CRM Brain, allowing brokers to arrange buildings and...

Nationwide and Accord the latest to increase rates

Mortgage borrowers have been urged to review their options after Nationwide and Accord increased...

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