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The Right Loan records best year as introducer payments rise 22%

Advisory firm The Right Loan, part of The Right Mortgage & Protection Network, said...

MAB hosts strategic lender Summit at Century Club 

Leading figures from the UK mortgage lending community gathered last night at the exclusive...

LiveMore integrates with Twenty7tec affordability tool

LiveMore has integrated its affordability assessment into Twenty7tec’s RESEARCH tool in a move designed...

Melton extends 100% LTV deal nationwide after early demand

Melton Building Society has confirmed that its no deposit mortgage, powered by Gable Sure,...

The Ecology unveils new brand identity

Ecology Building Society has introduced new branding designed to sharpen its environmental credentials and...

Compliance platforms unite as Simplified.ID in strategic rebrand

Professional Office, Sanction Search and ValidID have been brought together under a single brand...

SDLT shake-up set to push conveyancing fees higher

Conveyancing fees are set to rise from May 2026 as solicitors and licensed conveyancers...

HLP upgrades CRM for limited company buy-to-let surge

HLPartnership has upgraded its CRM system to better support advisers handling limited company buy-to-let...

UTB passes 50% mark for automated bridging valuations

United Trust Bank has announced that more than half of its bridging loan valuations...

Digital reform set to accelerate across conveyancing sector, annual conference hears

Momentum behind digital change in conveyancing will build throughout 2026, delegates at the Conveyancing...

Atom cuts 90% LTV near prime mortgage rates again

Atom bank has reduced rates across its 90% loan-to-value near prime mortgage range, marking...

Vida extends foreign national criteria across buy-to-let range

Vida Homeloans has widened its foreign national lending criteria across its entire buy-to-let range,...

Raw Capital Partners joins L&G Mortgage Club panel

Raw Capital Partners has joined the panel of Legal & General’s Mortgage Club, enabling...

Pure Retirement expands adviser support with new white label marketing resources

Pure Retirement has broadened its Marketing Toolkit with a new suite of white label...

COMMENT

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

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Councils to gain earlier powers over long-term empty homes

Councils will be able to intervene when homes have stood empty for six months...

Phoebus completes latest SOC 2 Type II assessment

Phoebus Software has renewed its SOC 2 Type II attestation after KPMG assessed the...

Low-deposit mortgage lending climbs 38% to £24.7bn

Mortgage lending at loan-to-value ratios above 90% rose sharply over the past year as...

Stonebridge reports sharp rise in protection policies placed in trust

The proportion of protection policies being placed in trust has risen substantially over the...

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