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Ultimate Finance backs energy saving product

Ultimate Finance has provided £225,000 funding for a product which provides significant savings on...

The Nationwide to cut fixed rates

The Nationwide Building Society is cutting fixed rate mortgages tomorrow (16 June), as well...

CML reports quieter April for mortgage market

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported that home-owners borrowed £8.1bn for house purchase...

TBMC offers BTL tracker with Axis Bank

TBMC has launched a new buy-to-let two year variable rate product with Axis Bank. It...

The Ipswich alters large loan completion fees

The Ipswich Building Society has changed the completion fees on its Large Loan products...

FSE Cardiff seminar programme unveiled

The seminar programme for the Financial Services Expo (FSE) Cardiff has been revealed. FSE Cardiff...

Retirement Advantage launches modified product range

Retirement Advantage has launched an enhanced range of equity release products which do not...

Specialist Financial Services to use Bluechip Broker

Target Group is to supply its Bluechip Broker system to Specialist Financial Services, a...

Reduction in serious rent arrears

The improving employment market has led to fewer tenants falling into serious rent arrears,...

SortRefer secures Investors in People accreditation

SortRefer has achieved full accreditation to the Investors in People core standard. The internationally recognised...

Bluestone partners with Mortgage Intelligence

Bluestone Mortgages is partnering with network and mortgage club Mortgage Intelligence. The new partnership...

New BDM for Kensington

Gemma Lang has joined Kensington as business development manager (BDM) for the North London...

TenetLime welcomes 400th member

TAG Financial from Chatham in Kent, have become TenetLime’s 400th member. Lee Holland, TAG Financial's...

14.5% annual house price growth for London

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported that UK average house prices increased by...

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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