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Smart Money hails 8-day second charge completion

Smart Money has completed a second charge case in eight days with Optimum Credit. The specialist master broker said it demonstrated...

Aldermore outlines 2016 training programme

Aldermore has launched its 2016 training programme, consisting of three workshops to support up-and-coming...

Source Commercial expands panel

Source Commercial has revealed that AXA will be joining its panel shortly. AXA provide a...

Y3S offers free bridging AVMs

Y3S is now offering free Automated Valuations (AVMs) on some of its first and second...

New Supply Teacher Mortgage launched

The Teachers Building Society has launched a new Supply Teacher Mortgage aimed at supply teachers...

Positive Lending unveils bridging AVM exclusive

Positive Lending is offering a exclusive, free Automated Valuations (AVMs) on selected first and second charge standard...

Brexit: banking shares temporarily suspended

Shares in a number of FTSE 100 firms were temporarily suspending this morning, as...

CML reports “dampened” lending in May

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has estimated that gross mortgage lending reached £18.2...

LendInvest retains top European credit rating

LendInvest has received the highest rating from a European credit agency for the second...

Conveyancing Association partners with InfoTrack

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has announced a partnership with InfoTrack, a new conveyancing services provider. The...

Accord hails service improvement

Accord Mortgages has reported a 28% improvement on its mortgage offer turnaround time year-on-year from...

Chris Ellis joins Valunation from e.surv

Valunation Chartered Surveyors has recruited Chris Ellis as its new professional development manager.  Ellis (pictured)...

The Mortgage Works cuts buy-to-let fixed rates

The Mortgage Works (TMW) has cut rates on two, three and five-year buy-to-let and Let to...

SimplyBiz Mortgages launches ‘MIP’ team

SimplyBiz Mortgages has created a new field-based 'MIP' (mortgages, insurance and protection) team, designed...

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...

Latest news

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...

Foundation returns with revised buy-to-let and residential mortgage range

Foundation has returned to the market with a revised product range across both buy-to-let...

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