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Skipton to pay a proc fee on retained business

Skipton Intermediaries will roll out the payment of procuration fees for all product transfers...

OneFamily appoints funding consultant

OneFamily has appointed Denise Saber as a funding consultant. She will report to John Adams,...

FTBs turning to specialist lenders

Vida Homeloans has stated that increasing numbers of first time buyers are taking advantage of...

ASTL outlines ‘Brexit and Bridging’ line-up

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has published the line up for its...

L&G Mortgage Club distributes Skipton exclusives

Legal & General Mortgage Club is offering two exclusive new build mortgage products with...

The Right PMI improves sourcing system

The Right PMI has announced a number of new developments to its PMI sourcing...

Foundation Home Loans adds to sales team

Foundation Home Loans has appointed Cheryl Power as regional account manager for the north. ...

TDS partners with deposit replacement insurance provider

Tenancy deposit protection and dispute resolution company The Dispute Service (TDS) has announced a...

FP Show keynote speaker revealed

Sir Christopher Meyer is to give the keynote speech at the FP Show later...

Consumers’ inflation fears continue to rise

The latest Lloyds Bank Spending Power Report has found that inflation worries reached their...

Self-employed at risk due to lack of protection

Almost two million self-employed people in the UK are unable to save any money each...

SMP: GDPR could speed up mortgage process

The Society of Mortgage Professionals (SMP) believe the implementation of General Data Protection Regulation...

Foundation Home Loans improves limited company proposition

Foundation Home Loans has removed the £500 processing and administration fee for buy-to-let applications...

Keystone brings forward proc fee rise

Keystone Property Finance has expedited its planned procuration fee rise by one month.  Brokers...

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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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...

Broker optimism grows as sub-4% rates edge closer

A series of mortgage rate cuts from lenders this week has sparked optimism among...

Renters face higher costs amid strong demand

Two in three (63%) recent movers ended up paying more rent than planned, as...

ModaMortgages cuts rates across limited-edition BTL range

ModaMortgages has announced a reprice of its limited-edition buy-to-let range, with rate reductions across...

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