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Knowledge Bank offers packager access

Knowledge Bank has introduced direct access to packagers and master brokers. Lenders with their...

Accord Buy To Let updates house purchase range

Accord Mortgages is offering free standard valuation and up to £1,000 cashback on all...

Bluestone Mortgages unveils online broker portal

Bluestone Mortgages has launched ‘Bluelink’, its new online broker portal, designed to provide a...

West One Loans expands distribution

West One Loans has joined up with Tenet Group to offer its first and...

Smart Money hires regulated business sales director

Colin Mason has joined specialist finance broker Smart Money as its sales director for...

Call for FCA to curb rise of consumer debt

With a November rise in Bank Rate looking likely, Citizens Advice is urging the Financial Conduct...

Together grows its broker sales team

Specialist lender Together has appointed a new business development manager for the South West...

Nationwide outlines response to mooted Bank Rate rise

The Nationwide Building Society is cutting rates for both house purchases and remortgages. Fixed rates...

Castle Trust grows development finance proposition

Castle Trust Capital has doubled its maximum loan size for development finance and is...

Platform changes BTL interest cover ratio

Platform will now assess eligible buy-to-let remortgage applications, without additional borrowing, using a minimum of...

New Adviser Hub from VitalityHealth

VitalityHealth has launched its new Adviser Hub platform, which will be rolled out to...

Sainsbury’s Bank expands broker distribution

Sainsbury’s Bank has added Mortgage Advice Bureau and Stonebridge Group to its mortgage broker distribution...

Uinsure relocates its headquarters

General insurance provider Uinsure has relocated its headquarters to the XYZ building in Manchester's Spinningfields district. Uinsure's...

22% fall in new build registrations year-on-year

HM Land Registry received more than 97,000 sales of land and property in England...
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Homebuying

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...

A new PM brings a new opportunity to rethink housing policy

Politics, as it seems to do in recent times, has moved at remarkable speed over the last couple of weeks. In what feels like...

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Training

The Right Mortgage appoints new head of academy

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has appointed Rebecca Egerton as head of The...
Homebuying

Stamp Duty could be holding back 300,000 home movers

Stamp Duty costs could be preventing more than 300,000 owner-occupied homes from coming to...
networks

National Friendly joins Primis panel

National Friendly's range of protection products are now available to advisers across the Primis...
Brokers

‘AI challenges intermediation,’ warns FCA

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today released its long-awaited Mills Review, which sets...

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