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SMG unveils second charge API tool

Specialist Mortgage Group (SMG) has launched Lenderlink, a lender-integrated API system designed specifically for...

10-year high for Scottish homemover numbers

The number of people moving home in Scotland is at its highest level since...

Go Commercial Finance expands panel

Go Commercial Finance has added Atom Bank to its lender panel. The move provides clients...

Skipton appoints trainee IRM

The Skipton Building Society has appointed Serena Smith to its team of intermediary regional managers...

New lower follow-on rate from Santander

Santander has announced that mortgages applied for from 23 January onwards will transfer to...

Lending restrictions top challenge for commercial brokers

While commercial mortgage brokers surveyed by Shawbrook Bank cite Brexit as one of the...

Record year for Crystal Specialist Finance

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has reported a record 2017, issuing terms of £2.45bn, a...

Majority of brokers confident about business growth

68% of brokers surveyed by bridging finance lender MTF believe overall market conditions will...

Fleet Mortgages’ lending shifts towards portfolio landlords

Fleet Mortgages has reported notable quarterly growth in the amount of portfolio landlord applications it...

JLM network to offer ‘robo proposition’

JLM Mortgage Services has become the first mortgage network to launch the first stage of...

New rent reporting system unveiled

A new platform has launched today that links tenants’ rental payments with their Experian...

Average homemover deposit close to £200k in London

Lloyds Bank has reported that the number of people moving home in the UK...

Pure Retirement hires business development manager

Hattie Tales has become Pure Retirement's new business development manager for the south of...

Paradigm lender and provider award winners announced

Paradigm Mortgage Services and Paradigm Protect have announced the winners of their annual Lender and...

COMMENT

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...

Build, baby, build? Well we will need to fund more than the usual suspects

There was a noticeable sense of optimism at UKREiiF this year. That may sound surprising given the economic headwinds of recent years, but the...

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market riding high

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market has created real value for customers – there’s no excuse to ignore it. When a UK borrower reaches 55,...

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LiveMore appoints Charles Roe as industry adviser

Specialist lender LiveMore has appointed Charles Roe as industry adviser. Roe joins LiveMore with a...

Squirrel Financial Planning grows to seven in first year

Squirrel Financial Planning has grown from a one-person mortgage and financial planning business to...

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...

Mortgage repayments set to rise for 5m households by 2028

More than five million households are projected to see their mortgage repayments increase by...

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