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New lettings and property management app unveiled

Rentr, a lettings management solution for private landlords and tenants, is now available to download...

Ingard Financial adopts MortgageBrain Anywhere

Ingard Financial has is now offering of MortgageBrain Anywhere, in addition to MortgageBrain Classic, as...

Expats not put off UK buy-to-let market

A survey by Skipton International has found 85% of British expats would not be put off...

Renters at risk from long-term illness

Nearly five million renters in the UK have no plans in place to cover...

Transactions yet to reach 2007 peak

Research commissioned by My Home Move has found that the number of property transactions...

More people choosing to phase their retirement

LV= has revealed that 87% of people working aged 65 and over are happy...

HLPartnership improves home insurance offering

HLPartnership has integrated Uinsure into its cloud-based home insurance fact find, complementing its built...

LBG hires four national account managers

Lloyds Banking Group has added to its strategic partnerships team with the appointment of four new national...

Pepper widens mortgage distribution

Pepper Homeloans has extended its distribution to now include the Legal & General Mortgage...

‘Exeter Assist’ service unveiled

The Exeter has launched a new health and wellbeing service in partnership with workplace...

Keystone begins funding auctions and commercial purchases

Keystone Property Finance is now offering ranges for auction purchases and commercial property. It...

ONS: house prices up 9% year-on-year

UK house prices increased by 9.0% in the year to March 2016, up from...

CML publishes BTL-skewed March figures

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that home-owners borrowed £13.8bn for house...

Second charge club unveiled

Master broker Promise Solutions has launched a new club proposition for mortgage brokers. Those looking...

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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