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Pepper Homeloans improves self-employed criteria

Pepper Homeloans has reducing the minimum trading period for self-employed borrowers to one year. The lender has also...

Septet joins second charge player

Second charge distributor Fluent Money has announced the appointment of seven new members of...

Brokers’ economic outlook “fair” rather than “bright”

38% of brokers who work within bridging, development finance, asset finance and/or mortgages have...

Homeowners claim lender insurance trap

14% of homeowners arranged their home insurance through their mortgage lender, and 30% of...

Landlord confidence stabilising after stamp duty hit

Paragon has found that while confidence remains low among landlords as a result of...

Most expensive April sale was for a flat

The 'Price Paid Data' from Land Registry for April 2016 has revealed that the...

TFC Homeloans launches specialist sourcing solution

TFC Homeloans has unveiled QuickSearch, its specialist lending sourcing system, to its brokers. The distributor says brokers can...

ARLA: increase in residential supply “temporary”

The number of rental properties managed per letting agent branch rose by 8%  in April to the...

New HMO guide unveiled by Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgage has published a new Guide to Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) for...

New commercial finance director for Together

Helga Wright has joined specialist lender Together as its commercial finance director. Wright (pictured) joins...

It takes two FTBs… to buy a property

Latest research from the Nottingham Building Society shows 63% of first-time buyers bought as...

£900bn of property investment “at harm from Brexit”

SyndicateRoom has published the result of its recent survey, assessing how the upcoming EU...

New regional account manager for Foundation Home Loans

Foundation Home Loans has appointed Joela Jenvey as regional account manager for the West and South West.  Jenvey...

Fitch upgrades the Skipton’s credit ratings

Credit ratings agency Fitch has upgraded Skipton Building Society’s long term and short term...
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COMMENT

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...
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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...
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UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...
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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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