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Accord Mortgages expands sales and underwriting teams

Accord Mortgages has expanded its team of field-based business development managers (BDMs) with four...

Shawbrook welcomes new strategic broker partner

Hive Financial has become the latest Strategic Broker Partner for Shawbrook Bank. The firm is a...

Buy-to-let mortgage rates on the rise

Latest research from moneyfacts.co.uk shows that since the base rate announcement on 2 November,...

Barclays unveils mobile branch services for armed forces

Barclays is launching a mobile branch at Colchester Garrison, one of the UK’s largest...

FCA investigates bad credit provider

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has begun an investigation into Moneybarn, the self-styled 'specialist...

New CEO for Golden Charter

Independent funeral plan provider Golden Charter has announced that Suzanne Grahame has joined as become...

Group risk benefits “shouldn’t exacerbate gender pay differences”

Group Risk Development (GRiD), the industry body for the group risk protection sector, is...

LSL Group offers exclusive five-year buy-to-let fix

LSL Group is offering two, five-year fixed rate exclusive buy-to-let products with the Leeds...

Personal Touch adds two lenders to seconds panel

Shawbrook Bank and Paragon Bank have become the latest lenders to be appointed to...

New head of sales for Kent Reliance

OneSavings Bank has announced the appointment of Simon Cockerill as head of sales for...

Industry reviews 2017 sales and lettings performance

NAEA and ARLA Propertymark have published sales and lettings data for 2017. NAEA Propertymark found...

Positive Commercial Finance celebrates tenth birthday

Specialist commercial finance broker Positive Commercial Finance is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its...

Portfolio landlord boost for Octane Capital

Octane Capital has reported a 27% increase in enquiries from portfolio landlords during October...

Skipton appoints IRM for East Central region

The Skipton Building Society has announced the appointment of Emma Hill to the team...
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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,...

How small and medium-sized lenders can fix the origination headache

We are constantly told that to fix the mortgage journey, we need to rip everything out and start again. That unless a lender replaces its...

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Steve Hayes joins Specialist Hub

Steve Hayes has joined the Specialist Hub alongside Mike Brooks, with both now fully...
Appointments

UTB appoints Frankie Kitchen as BTL key account manager

United Trust Bank (UTB) Mortgages has appointed Frankie Kitchen as a buy-to-let key account...
Technology

OMS and Brightstar Group extend technology partnership

One Mortgage System (OMS), the CRM and loan origination platform for intermediaries and lenders,...
Technology

Nivo launches AI webinar sessions

Nivo has launched a new webinar programme focused on helping brokers and lenders understand...

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