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TenetLime expands insurance panel

TenetLime have announced the addition of Manchester-based business-to-business general insurance provider, Uinsure, to its panel of five...

SortRefer recruits head of sales

Conveyancing portal SortRefer has appointed Phil Goff as its head of sales. Goff was previously in sales...

Ex-pros to manage Financial Services Cup teams

Front Events has announced that ex-professional footballers will be joining the teams at its Financial Services Cup next...

Hull tops seaside rental yields poll

LendInvest has claimed that Hull is the top seaside postal area for landlords in England...

Lettings agents don’t expect immediate referendum effect

Lettings agents do not believe supply, demand, or rental costs will be significantly affected...

CA sets up home buying process working group

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has has established a working group to deliver its response...

Virgin Money to pay retention proc fees

Virgin Money has confirmed it will be rolling out product-switching with procuration fees for...

New three-year fixes from Accord Mortgages

Accord Mortgages has introduced a range of new three-year fixed rate mortgages, available to...

The Mansfield broadens shared ownership availability

The Mansfield Building Society has widened the availability of its shared ownership scheme by...

Fluent Money seeks to cut identity fraud risk

Second charge distributor Fluent Money has invested in an ID scanning solution from TrustID...

AToM to hold expo and gala dinner

All Types of Mortgages Ltd (AToM) is holding a specialist lender expo on 30...

New associates for the CML

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has announced the addition of another five new...

Choppier waters ahead for Scottish landlords?

The latest Scotland Buy-to-Let Index from lettings agent Your Move Rents has found that...

CSF completes deal in under 24 hours

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has revealed that it completed one of its quickest deals...

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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