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Buoyant February for remortgaging

Monthly gross remortgage lending fell to £4.4bn in February 2016, down by 24% from...

New internal BDM for Dragonfly

Dragonfly Property Finance has announced that February was its largest month ever for Agreements...

Approvals up 26% year-on-year

The British Bankers' Association (BBA) has reported that gross mortgage borrowing of £13.2 billion...

Enterprise unveils new broker portal

Enterprise Finance has revealed that its new broker portal, Apex, has been accepting new business since...

New affiliate member for Conveyancing Association

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has announced its ninth affiliate member, Safe Move Scheme. The...

CSF partners with Pepper Homeloans

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has entered into a strategic partnership with Pepper Homeloans. Pepper has...

Lettings agents expect brake on rental market

The new stamp duty reforms for buy-to-let properties, which take place on 1 April, will...

L&G improves mental health offering

Legal & General has made changes to the support its Group Income Protection provides to...

FCA authorisation for Darwin Loan Solutions’ brands

Manchester-based lending specialist Darwin Loan Solutions has announced that all of the companies within...

LMS unveils anti-fraud tool

LMS has launched a new service called AccountChecker to help lawyers check bank account...

Openwork triples number of protected individuals

Openwork has revealed that it tripled the number of protection policies recommended to clients...

Marsh & Parsons’ CEO to stope down

Peter Rollings has decided to step down as CEO of Marsh & Parsons. Rollings...

Kensington to launch with specialist distributors

Kensington has confirmed that it will be launching with specialist distributors next month. The lender will...

Vantage Finance establishes business development team

Vantage Finance has set up a dedicated business development team as it seeks to grow...

COMMENT

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

Latest news

The Cambridge relaunches interest-only fixed rate mortgages

The Cambridge has relaunched a selection of fixed rate mortgage products, including interest-only options...

Vernon BS adds free legals to selected remortgage deals

Vernon Building Society has partnered with Optimus to introduce a free legals service on...

Paragon launches tailored buy-to-let service for complex cases

Paragon Bank has launched a Tailored service to support buy-to-let mortgage applications that fall...

Castle Trust Bank adds AVMs to buy-to-let applications

Castle Trust Bank has introduced automated valuation models on eligible buy-to-let cases as part...

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