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The Mortgage Lender signs up 500 brokers

Over 500 brokers have registered to do business with The Mortgage Lender during its...

Self-employed division expansion at Just Mortgages

Just Mortgages is expanding its self-employed division, four months after its launch. The division...

TSB complete legal transfer of former Northern Rock deals

UK Asset Resolution Limited (UKAR) has confirmed the final stage of the sale of...

Accord unveils fixed rate mortgage reductions

Accord Mortgages has cut rates on a range of selected fixed rate mortgages by...

LMS improves digital conveyancing portal

LMS has launched an upgrade for its customer conveyancing portal, Track My Case. Track...

Rightmove: small July fall in house prices

Rightmove has reported that the price of property coming to the market in July...

Brokers reveal most important factors in a lender

Turnaround times and support from business development managers (BDMs) are the most important factors...

New occupational mortgages from Saffron For Intermediaries

Saffron For Intermediaries has launched new fixed rate mortgage deals on its occupational range...

Strong June for BFS

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has revealed that June was its best month on record since...

New BDM for Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has appointed a new business development manager (BDM) covering the Midlands. Chris Kirby joins the buy-to-let lender with...

Freedom Finance acquires brokerage

Freedom Finance is to acquire Sensible Home Finance, a mortgage and loan broker. As part of...

LBG reports increase in online SME lending

The total amount of online lending to small businesses has doubled in the past...

Debt management directors disqualified

A husband and wife team from Cheshire have been disqualified for a total of...

Ingard partners with intermediary focused estate agency

Ingrid has teamed up with Agent Online, a new estate agency which is geared towards intermediaries.  The partnership...

COMMENT

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

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Lloyds data glitch exposed details of up to 447,936 banking customers, MPs told

Up to 447,936 customers of Lloyds Banking Group were affected by a data breach...

Chancellor presses lenders to expand support for borrowers ahead of rate resets

The government has secured fresh commitments from major lenders to step up engagement with...

Suffolk BS tops £800m in mortgage assets after strong 2025 growth

Suffolk Building Society has passed £800m of mortgage assets for the first time after...

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...

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