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BBA: April lending still up year-on-year despite slump

The British Bankers' Association (BBA) has found that gross mortgage borrowing of £12 billion...

Sentiment about specialist lending remains positive

Lenders are still largely positive about the specialist property investment market, according to a...

AToM launches CRM & sourcing system

All Types of Mortgages Ltd (AToM) has unveiled a CRM system with a built-in specialist sourcing...

OSB sells stake in securitisation

OneSavings Bank (OSB) is selling its entire economic interest in the Rochester Financing No.1...

Estate agents unsurprised by fall in demand

Estate agents have reported a significant fall in demand for housing in April, with the number...

April bounceback for remortgaging

Monthly gross remortgage lending rose to £6.4bn in April 2016, the largest amount since...

TMP becomes Dudley BS introducer

The Mortgage Partnership (TMP) now has access to the Dudley Building Society's products as an...

Magellan wants intermediaries to share their ideas

Magellan Homeloans wants intermediaries to share their innovative ideas for new products, better ways to process...

Cap on early pension exit charges proposed

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced the level at which it will consult...

Ultimate Finance helps UK manufacturer

Ultimate Finance has provided a £300,000 asset finance facility to Pretty Legs Hosiery. The deal...

New Help to Buy Scotland deals from Virgin Money

Virgin Money has launched a new range of Help to Buy Equity Loan products...

Government proposes 7-day mortgage switching service

The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) is consulting on the feasibility of...

41% rise in London house purchases

Homebuyers in London borrowed £7.1bn for house purchase in the first quarter of 2016,...

Marginal annual growth in Scottish mortgage lending

Homeowners in Scotland borrowed £1.8bn for house purchase in Q1 2016, down 22% quarter-on-quarter...
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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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Suffolk BS tops £800m in mortgage assets after strong 2025 growth

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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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