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Platform reveals retention process

Platform has become the latest lender to launch a new mortgage retention process for intermediaries. Intermediaries will...

Legal & General Home Finance to relocate

Legal & General Home Finance will be relocating to a larger office in Solihull...

LendInvest unveils pre-construction product

LendInvest has launched a new pre-construction finance product, aimed at property professionals seeking to...

West One Loans cuts unregulated bridging rates

West One Loans has cut rates for unregulated residential loans by up to 0.4...

Legal app offers mortgage and stamp duty calculators

Law firm Moore Blatch has launched an app for Apple and Android devices. Covering...

Many over 50s can’t afford to fix their home

For almost half of people over 50, home repairs and how to pay for...

Drop in house sale fall-throughs

More than one in three house sales across England and Wales fell through before...

Saffron for Intermediaries improves specialist deals

Saffron For Intermediaries has cut rates and extended the term on several of its mortgages...

Positive Lending appoints director of mortgages

South coast based packager, Positive Lending, has appointed Stephanie Charman as its director of mortgages. ...

Government stake in Lloyds further reduced

UK Financial Investments has cut its holding in Lloyds Banking Group by one percentage...

Homeowners taking risks with unauthorised renovations

57% of UK homeowners say they’ve had extensive work done on their properties and...

Hosting an event? Tell us about it!

BestAdvice will soon launch a free industry calendar facility for its users. From the...

New BTL offset deal from the Family BS

The Family Building Society has launched a buy-to-let offset mortgage, aimed at helping private residential...

Paragon: average gearing is low and getting lower

Paragon Mortgages’ latest PRS Trends Report for the first quarter of 2017 has found that...

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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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,...

Omni Protect appoints Richard Waters as head of strategic partnerships

Omni Protect, Fintel’s whole of market protection club, has announced the appointment of Richard...

Redwood Bank awarded top green accreditation

Redwood Bank has been recognised for its continued commitment to sustainability after achieving the...

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