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Openwork expands lending panel

Kent Reliance has joined Openwork's growing lender panel. The addition of Kent Reliance, a brand of OneSavings...

£4bn a year could be saved by moving off SVR

Legal & General Mortgage Club has found that swapping existing mortgages from the Standard...

“Measured growth” at the Dudley BS

The Dudley Building Society has reported pre-tax profit in the year ending April 2016...

BoE sounds Brexit warning

The EU referendum is the single factor posing the greatest risk to the UK...

Young professionals flock to East Sussex coast

The BN3 postal district in Hove is once again the most desirable location to...

Together unveils BTL criteria changes

Together has removed the maximum age limit on its buy-to-let mortgages, where affordability can be satisfied...

No changes from the MPC

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has again voted unanimously to maintain...

Trio of appointments for The Mortgage Lender

The Mortgage Lender has announced the appointment of three new key account managers. Sandra Harrington,...

Lloyds Bank cuts FTB rates

Lloyds Bank has reduced its rates on its mortgage products designed to support first-time...

The Nationwide extends maximum borrowing age

The Nationwide Building Society's new maximum age for borrowing of 85 will apply to...

The Source offers alternative football championship

During Euro 2016, Source Rewards has set up a football championship of its own – Flick...

The Nationwide joins the ABI

The Nationwide Building Society has become the ABI’s latest associate member. Nationwide is the UK's...

6.8m adults have never checked their credit score

Nearly seven million UK adults in the near prime sector have never checked their credit...

New chartered surveyors for DM Hall

DM Hall, the Scottish firm of independent chartered surveyors, has produced two new chartered surveyors from its graduate development...

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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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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