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Knowledge Bank introduces affordability calculators

Mortgage criteria search system Knowledge Bank has added affordability calculators for every lender on...

Charity awards £94k towards improving PRS

The TDS Charitable Foundation has awarded over £94,000 to organisations to advance education on...

Brokers pessimistic about govt new homes target

Only 8% of development finance brokers think the government will hit its 1m new...

L&G Mortgage Club expands second charge panel

Legal & General Mortgage Club has made two new appointments to its second charge...

Advisers looking towards younger people

74% of advisers believe Brits are not tackling their long term financial planning early...

AOBP appoints lender committee

The Association of Bridging Professionals (AOBP) has finalised the formation of its lender committee. It...

GWlegal issues remortgage guarantee

GWlegal has launched a "cast-iron" remortgage guarantee, where the fee quoted on day one...

Step One Finance introduces new loan products

Step One Finance has unveiled a new range of personal loan deals to complement...

Accord to pull its record low fixed rate

Accord Mortgages is to withdraw its record low 0.99% two-year fixed rate mortgage at 8pm...

Faster application process launched by More 2 Life

Equity release lender More 2 Life has announced its fastest-ever application process, with a customer receiving...

LendInvest unveils broker property development course

LendInvest has launched the first LendInvest Broker Property Development Course in partnership with the...

Leeds team completes Three Peaks challenge team

A team of 76 from Leeds Building Society successfully tackled the Yorkshire Three Peaks...

Remortgaging totals 37% of valuations market

The latest research from Connells Survey & Valuation has found that remortgaging was responsible for...

BML hires business development quartet

Butterfield Mortgages Ltd (BML) has appointed four business development professionals as it seeks to expand...

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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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...

L&G names winners of 15th Business Quality Awards

Legal & General has announced the winners of its 15th annual Business Quality Awards. The...

MT Finance latest firm to offer World Cup time off

As mortgage firms gear up for England’s 1am World Cup clash against Mexico on...

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