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Coventry for Intermediaries to pay BTL transfer proc fees

Coventry for Intermediaries is to start paying product transfer fees on buy-to-let retention business from...

Pepper expands network distribution

Pepper Homeloans has extended its distribution network to include Ingard. The Essex and Chester based...

Accord extends retention proc fee pilot

Accord Mortgages is broad ending its pilot scheme to pay brokers a procuration fee for...

Together issues new £200m bond

Together has completed a £200m seven-year bond issuance. The new bond will increase the group’s...

Saffron For Intermediaries unveils specialist BTL deals

Saffron For Intermediaries has launched five-year fixed rate mortgages for expats purchasing or remortgaging rental...

New FS events for Wales unveiled

Front Events, organisers of the Financial Services Expo (FSE) exhibitions, has published details of two...

The Source joins up with Adviser Portals

Source Insurance has partnered with specialist broker website provider, AdviserPortals, to create a joint...

New secure client portal for the Key

Mortgage Brain has launched a new secure online Client Portal within the Key. It can be...

London FTB borrowing down 7% year-on-year

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported that in the fourth quarter of...

Third anniversary for L&G’s new build club

Legal & General New Build Club is celebrating its third anniversary. Launched early in 2014,...

Accord lowers 60-75% LTV buy-to-let rates

Accord Buy To Let has cuts rates on its lower loan to value (LTV) mortgages...

Paradigm expands mortgage lender panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added Vida Homeloans to its lender panel. All Paradigm advisers and...

Shawbrook makes commercial sales promotions

Shawbrook is restructuring its commercial mortgages’ field sales team. The move includes four promotions in...

Record profits and lending at the Leeds

The Leeds Building Society has reported record profits before tax for the fourth consecutive...

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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The West Brom promotes Gareth Madeley to chief customer officer

West Brom Building Society has appointed Gareth Madeley as its new chief customer officer,...

Industry leaders unite behind MIMHC Lunch

HSBC UK, Virgin Money, Nottingham Building Society, Landbay and top broker firms Mortgage Advice...

Santander raises foreign national mortgage lending to 90% LTV

Santander UK has expanded its foreign national mortgage policy by increasing the maximum loan-to-value...

Keystone passes £2bn in securitisation issuance with sixth Hops Hill deal

Keystone Property Finance has completed its sixth securitisation, taking total issuance under its Hops...

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