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Mortgage Gym recruits chief commercial officer

Mortgage Gym has announced the appointment of Jeremy Moll as chief commercial officer. Moll as over 28...

The Leeds appoints BDM

The Leeds Building Society has appointed John Hoole as a business development manager (BDM) for...

Landlords target affordable investments

The first quarter of the year saw landlords opting for smaller mortgages and cheaper properties,...

Magellan partners with Connect for Intermediaries

Magellan Homeloans is to distribute its range of mortgage products via the specialist mortgage...

Equity Release Club partners with Shawbrook

Equity Release Club and AIR Sourcing have announced a new relationship with Shawbrook Bank. The Equity...

L&G upgrades OLPC

Legal & General has made upgrades to its intermediary case management system Online Protection Connect...

Accord moves into consumer buy-to-let market

Accord Buy To Let will now accept buy-to-let mortgage applications from borrowers classed as...

Key appoints specialist lending director

Key Retirement has appointed Mark Blanchfield as its director of specialist lending. He will be...

Sainsbury’s Bank unveils mortgage offering

Sainsbury’s Bank is launching residential home purchase mortgages and remortgages for first time buyers,...

Threefold rise in £1m apartment sales over past decade

The number of million pound apartment sales in England & Wales has grown by 196%...

Colin Sanders leaves Fortwell Capital

Colin Sanders is leaving the CPC-owned lender Fortwell Capital after six years at the...

Skipton sells £220m mortgage portfolio

Skipton Building Society subsidiaries, Amber Homeloans Limited and North Yorkshire Mortgages Limited, have agreed...

New buy-to-let range from the Monmouthshire

The Monmouthshire Building Society has launched a new range of two-year buy-to-let house purchase...

Equity release “to help fill buy-to-let vacuum”

The Society of Mortgage Professionals has warned that, after doubling in volume from £20.1bn...

COMMENT

With great power comes great responsibility

There has been a huge amount in the press about the “feudal” system of leasehold and how the government’s revitalised commonhold will fix all...

Don’t rein me in

For many years, major financial institutions and large retailers have understood the benefits of presenting their customers with complementary products alongside their core offering. Banks...

More questions now surround the home moving digital journey

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has published its highly anticipated Home Buying and Selling Reform Roadmap, representing the most aggressive...

Stability has value: why the latest Bank Base Rate hold matters

The Bank of England's decision to maintain Bank Base Rate (BBR) at 3.75% may not have generated the excitement that often accompanies a rate...

If you motivate an idiot you just get stupid things done quicker

There's a lot of excitement about artificial intelligence in the mortgage industry right now. Nearly nine in 10 mortgage brokers want technology to play...

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Ageas teams up with Source Insurance

Ageas UK has joined Source's Insurance panel, expanding access to its home insurance products...

Buyer demand falls 15% year-on-year

Political uncertainty and higher borrowing costs have led to a 15% year-on-year fall in...

Mortgage Advice Bureau hires new group CFO

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has named Jo Stent as its next group chief financial...

OMS launches protection referral partnership with The Insurance Surgery

One Mortgage System (OMS), the CRM and loan origination platform for intermediaries and lenders,...

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