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Belmont Green hires mortgages sales director

Yet-to launch mortgage lender Belmont Green has appointed Louisa Sedgwick as its director of sales for mortgages. She joins...

Landlords moving towards retail and commercial property

Master broker Clever Lending has reported seeing more landlords move away from 'traditional' buy-to-let property...

Royal London invites members to committee

Royal London has written to over 800,000 of its members to invite them to...

Bank of Ireland for Intermediaries improves offering

Bank of Ireland for Intermediaries will now pay the valuation fee on all its Help...

Scottish Widows reveals 2015 protection payments

Scottish Widows has revealed that it paid out over £219 million in life and critical...

National Counties joins MCI’s panel

The National Counties Building Society has become the latest lender to join MCI Mortgage Club’s...

Computershare to service UKAR mortgages

Computershare has been appointed to undertake mortgage servicing activities for UK Asset Resolution Limited...

Bibby increases Liverpool business funding

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has grown its funding to Liverpool businesses by 193% compared to...

New BTL exclusive from 3mc

3mc is offering an exclusive buy-to-let deal which has the same 3.49% two-year fixed rate for...

Barclays widens Family Springboard Mortgage offering

Barclays Mortgages has made changes to its Family Springboard Mortgage, removing the need for borrowers to put...

Hamptons Estates’ ad misleading, rules watchdog

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has told Hampton Estates that an online advert outlining...

FSE Manchester reveals seminar schedule

Financial Services Expo (FSE) Manchester has published details of its seminar programmes for the event...

New 95% LTV discount deal from the Mansfield

The Mansfield Building Society has introduced a new two-year discounted rate mortgage up to 95%...

L&G cuts lifetime mortgage rates

Legal & General has made cuts in interest rates for its lifetime mortgage products. There is...
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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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Regulation

FCA to join Bristol summit as later life lending sector weighs market study

The Financial Conduct Authority will join advisers, lenders and industry figures in Bristol next...
First-time buyers

Targeted deposit scheme could help one million first-time buyers onto housing ladder

A new government-backed deposit scheme could provide a route onto the housing ladder for...
Buy-to-let

Hodge raises holiday let lending limits with 80% LTV move

Hodge Bank has widened its holiday let criteria, increasing maximum loan-to-value to 80% and...
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Family BS expands fixed rate range across core lending lines

Family Building Society has launched a refreshed range of fixed rate products spanning owner-occupier...

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