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Rebrand for Air Group businesses

Answers in Retirement Group has announced a rebranding of all businesses. The rebranding means...

May sees sharp rise in remortgage volumes

LMS's latest remortgage report has revealed there was a £195.09 average monthly payment decrease...

Apex Bridging appoints marketing chief

Apex Bridging has appointed Andy Bayes as its head of marketing. He joins the Midlands-based...

Barclays extends fixed rate period of Family Springboard Mortgage

Barclays Mortgages has made changes to its Family Springboard Mortgage. Having been first introduced in...

Platform reduces Help to Buy rates

Platform has cut the interest rate of its five-year fixed rate Help to Buy mortgages...

Kuflink agrees shirt sponsorship deal with Kent football club

Kuflink has signed a shirt sponsorship deal with Ebbsfleet United FC. Coupled with its existing...

Mortgage Intelligence adopts Criteria Hub

Mortgage Intelligence has chosen Mortgage Brain’s Criteria Hub as its preferred criteria based sourcing...

Newcastle Intermediaries hires new BDM for the North West

Newcastle Intermediaries has recruited Stephen Breen as a business development manager (BDM) to cover...

United Trust Bank reveals 2018 ‘Open Book’ winner

United Trust Bank has announced that the winner of its 2018 ‘Open Book’ broker...

Canada Life unveils online customer hub

Canada Life has introduced a hub on its website to help existing mortgage customers with...

Sirius and Castle Trust complete £12m refinance in 11 days

In 11 working days, Sirius Property Finance has completed a £12 million loan, secured...

TMA Club provides customer retention tool with new deal

TMA Club has partnered with Eligible.ai, providing members of the Club access to Eligible.ai's...

Later life lending market to double in a decade

The later life lending market is set to almost double in size over the...

60% of Brits don’t have life insurance

Two-thirds of Britons don’t have life insurance, despite a large majority having dependants or property...

COMMENT

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...

Why post-contract variation is becoming the mortgage market’s next battleground

For much of the past decade, mortgage technology investment has focused on origination and with good reason. Faster decisions in principle, automated affordability assessments,...

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Bridging Soup launches major market research initiative

Bridging Soup has launched a new research initiative to build a clearer picture of...

Just one in seven homes records five years of growth

Fewer than one in seven UK homes increased in value during every year of...

Word On The Street arranges £108m of property finance in record year

Word On The Street arranged more than £108 million of property finance across 239...

Beverley enhances SIPP income assessment

Beverley Building Society has introduced a tiered approach to assessing income from self-invested personal...

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