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TenetSelect to hold free DA seminars

TenetSelect is holding a series of free assessing suitability seminars throughout June, aimed at...

IGF ABL funds £1.5m management buy-out

IGF Asset Based Lending (ABL) has facilitated the management buy-out (MBO) for Testing Solutions...

New associate member for the ABI

Law firm DWF has become the latest associate member of the Association of British...

Euro success can lead to feel-good factor

The football European championships may benefit to the Home Nations’ economies, Lloyds Bank has...

North/South repossession gap markedly closing

There has been almost halving in the divide between home repossessions in the North...

LV= added to L&G Later Life panel

Legal & General Mortgage Club has added LV= to its direct to lender Later Life Lending...

Only 28% of retirees expect to leave an inheritance

The Prudential has reported that the proportion of new retirees who know they will...

Over 60% of tenants in the dark over protection

UK letting agents hold over £2.7 billion of landlord and tenants’ money but, according...

IMLA sees further growth for FTB market in 2016

Homemovers had the highest success rate for turning mortgage applications into completions during the first quarter...

Vantage Finance appoints chairman

The former CEO of Aviva’s life insurance business has been appointed as chairman of...

LendInvest revamps bridging proposition

LendInvest has revised its bridging loan offering. The lender has split its bridging loan offering...

Accord Mortgages cuts higher LTV rates

Accord Mortgages has cut rates at higher loan-to-values (LTVs) and introducing new options across its...

N&P unveils lowest 90% LTV 5-year deal

The Norwich & Peterborough Building Society has launched a 2.93% five-year fixed rate for...

Paymentshield unveils Euro 2016 fantasy league

Paymentshield has announced the launch of its Euros 2016 Fantasy Football League for mortgage...

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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