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TMA to offer mortgage broker software through Intelliflo

TMA Club has entered into an agreement with Intelliflo, a supplier of business management...

Number of over-65 homeowners has risen 52% in last 20 years

A new report from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has concluded that homeowners...

Brightstar to hold new webinar series

Brightstar Financial has unveiled its largest ever webinar programme, with nine specialist lending events...

Accord appoints corporate account manager

Accord Mortgages has added its corporate account team with the appointment of Helen Cawthra. Cawthra...

Small June fall for second charge market

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has published the June 2018 new business figures...

Estate agents need training to improve service

Keller Williams UK, the UK division of the world's largest estate agency, says that...

Precise Mortgages expands offering to landlords

Precise Mortgages is launching into the holiday buy-to-let market and improving criteria for its...

L&C’s Mortgage Finder attracts wide user age range

Mortgage broker L&C has seen over £2.6bn worth of mortgage applications through its online tool since...

Brokers “have never had a better opportunity to diversify”

Chirag Shah, CEO at Nucleus Commercial Finance, has claimed that brokers have never had...

Octopus Property increases regional lending

Specialist property lender Octopus Property has agreed to provide four commercial loans, totalling £35.2...

Identity fraud falls for the first time since 2014

Fraud prevention service Cifas has published new figures showing that identity fraud has fallen...

Over 55s have an average of £282,623 of equity in their homes

SunLife has revealed that over 55s believe they need £114,436 for a "comfortable" retirement. The...

New 10-year fix unveiled by Barclays

Barclays has made changes to its product range. It has introduced two new two-year fixed...

Intermediaries expect landlord business to stabilise

65% of mortgage intermediaries expect the level of landlord business to stabilise over the...
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Housing reform needs a thriving private rental sector, not just a thriving sales and purchase market

One of the most encouraging developments over recent weeks has been the renewed focus on improving the homebuying and selling process. The Government's plans to...

The economics of developing the next generation of advisers

Over the past couple of decades, I have worked alongside literally thousands of AR and DA firms, from businesses employing one or two advisers...

Is Andy Burnham the New Messiah or just Starmer with better eyebrows?

What a damning indictment of Labour that Andy Burnham appears to be strolling towards the leadership in what looks less like a contest and...

Approvals hit a 2.5-year low: When broker value gets proven – or missed

Net mortgage approvals dropped to 56,200 in May – the lowest since December 2023 - down from 66,000 the month before. Net borrowing fell from...

Removing friction from the homebuying journey

One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...

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