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Paradigm Mortgage Services bolsters helpdesk function

Paradigm Mortgage Services has appointed a new member of staff to support its mortgage...

Platform unveils Help to Buy mortgage range

Platform is to offer a range of Help to Buy mortgages to broker partners from Monday,...

Black Book Finance arranges £5m Shawbrook development facility

Shawbrook Bank's development finance team has supported another new funding facility working alongside Black...

The Buckinghamshire launches small loans

The Buckinghamshire Building Society has recently launched a new mortgage product on an interest-only...

Champ and Matthews to leave Shawbrook

Sales managers Marc Champ and Steve Matthews are to leave Shawbrook in order to...

Openwork extends Newcastle Financial Advisers relationship

Openwork and Newcastle Building Society subsidiary, Newcastle Financial Advisers Limited, have extended their relationship for...

Accord unveils cheaper fixed rates

Accord has reduced rates across its fixed rate mortgage range by up to 0.18...

Barclays Green Home Mortgage to launch next week

Barclays Mortgages has announced the launch of the Barclays Green Home Mortgage, available to...

Mortgage lending at a high for the Bath BS

The Bath Building Society has announced that profit on ordinary activities before tax was £4.2m,...

First digital mortgage signed by borrower and registered at Land Registry

The Coventry Building Society and Enact Conveyancing have lodged the first digitally signed mortgage...

Twenty7Tec sees growth in DA users

Twenty7Tec has revealed that the number of Directly Authorised (DA) mortgage brokers subscribing to...

BFS appoints regional business development manager

Keith Litherland has joined Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) as regional business development manager. Litherland (pictured) will...

Gavin Seaholme becomes Shawbrook head of commercial sales

Shawbrook Commercial Property has announced three senior promotions. Gavin Seaholme (pictured) has been appointed as...

Network calls for region specific product ranges

JLM Mortgage Services is calling upon lenders to consider sector-specific product ranges focused on...

COMMENT

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...

Latest news

Growing calls for government to overhaul Stamp Duty for FTBs

Mortgage industry figures are urging the government to review Stamp Duty for first-time buyers...

L&G launches later life lending campaign

L&G has launched a later life lending campaign featuring short documentary-style films highlighting the...

West Brom reduces rates by up to 0.18%

West Brom Building Society has reduced rates across its two-year fixed purchase mortgage range,...

more2life calls for innovation and technology to drive later life lending growth

Later life lender more2life has called on the wider industry to ensure product innovation...

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