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Reward Finance Group hires new commercial director

Gemma Wright is joining Reward Finance Group as commercial director. Wright (pictured) will have responsibility...

New 50% LTV deals from TMW

The Mortgage Works (TMW) is expanding its 50% loan to value (LTV) range of mortgages. New...

Openwork appoints two non-executive directors

    Openwork has appointed Ian Buchanan and Andy Smart as non-executive board directors. Ian Buchanan is...

Hometrack wins Foundation Home Loans contract

Foundation Home Loans has appointed Hometrack to provide Automated Valuation Model (AVM) services for its...

New fees-assisted remortgage deals from Kent Reliance

Kent Reliance has unveiled a fees-assisted remortgage product range for residential and standard buy-to-let...

SimplyBiz Group sees rise in adviser digital engagement

The SimplyBiz Group has reported an increase in adviser interest in offering digital solutions...

Paragon refines second charge offering

Paragon has aligned all its savings and lending products - including its second charge...

FP Show publishes conference programme

The Finance Professional Show, which has full CPD accreditation, has outlined its conference programme. It...

Monthly payers much less likely to switch than annual payers

Research from GoCompare Insurance has shown that those who pay for their insurance monthly rather...

65,000 pensioners could lose mortgage help

Royal London has issued a stark warning over government changes to mortgage payment assistance.  The...

Lenders should study declined loan applications

A new report from Equiniti Credit Services has found consumer motivations for borrowing split...

Vida Homeloans unveils online buy-to-let calculator

Vida Homeloans has announced the launch of its new online buy-to-let affordability calculator. In...

Black Book Finance expands BDM team

Andy Morgan has joined Black Book finance as its business development manager  for the...

TML partners with Intrinsic

Intrinsic has become The Mortgage Lender’s (TML) latest network partner.  The Swindon-based firm was established...

COMMENT

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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Des Moore joins Suffolk BS as non-executive director 

Des Moore, former Cumberland Building Society chief executive officer, will join the Suffolk Building...

GB Bank cuts 65% LTV BTL rates by 0.30%

GB Bank has reduced its 65% LTV buy-to-let core range rates by an additional...

Together cuts fixed rates and expands criteria

Specialist lender Together has reduced rates across its fixed-rate product range and announced it...

Bank lending to smaller property investors falls 14%

The value of lending from UK-regulated banks to small and medium-sized property investment businesses...

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