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Hometrack makes senior appointments

Hometrack has made two senior appointments to its financial services team. Piero Bassu has...

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network grows compliance team

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has appointed two new compliance managers. Greig Portingale and...

70 is age of financial freedom for Millennials

While true financial freedom has likely already arrived for those born on or before...

Leeds volunteers help farm prepare for fayre

Volunteers from Leeds Building Society’s head office spent a day at Meanwood Valley Urban...

Growth slows for construction SMEs

The SME construction sector grew in the second quarter of 2017, albeit at a...

New office for BFS

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) opened an office in Brentwood last week. The office will...

Royal London introduces medical consent e-signatures

Royal London has launched an e-signature solution to obtain customer consent under the Access...

Age Partnership plans large expansion

Age Partnership is recruiting for 75 new equity release advisers to join its team...

P2P platform joins UK Finance

ArchOver, a peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending platform, has become a member of UK Finance,...

Openwork unveils surveying service

Openwork has launched Openwork Surveying, in partnership with Legal & General Surveying Services (LGSS). Openwork...

Record month for bridging lender

West One Loans has reported that it lent £62m in June, a new record...

Accord pledges to continue free legals

Accord Mortgages is offering the choice of free legal assistance or cashback up to £500...

The Bucks and MySafeHome celebrate HOLD success

In the year since Buckinghamshire Building Society and MySafeHome launched their HOLD (Home Ownership...

The Mortgage Lender expands distribution

The Mortgage Lender has added Edinburgh-based master broker Thistle Finance to its distribution network. Thistle...

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...

Latest news

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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