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Acre integrates LV= home insurance to streamline adviser process

Acre has integrated LV= General Insurance into its mortgage platform, giving advisers instant access...

Hinckley & Rugby adds new fixed and discounted mortgage options

Hinckley & Rugby for Intermediaries has refreshed its core residential and joint borrower sole...

London Credit delivers £240k bridge to meet urgent commercial purchase deadline

London Credit has completed a £240,500 bridging loan to facilitate the purchase of a...

New chief executive of Darlington Building Society unveiled

Darlington Building Society has appointed Alex Windle as its next chief executive, succeeding Andrew...

Atom bank ‘saves hotel £145k a year’ with refinance

Atom bank has helped a Birmingham hotel save £145,000 a year by refinancing a...

IMLA warns tax proposal could wipe out profits for higher-rate landlords

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has cautioned that extending National Insurance to landlords’...

Chetwood Bank unveils monthly £1,000 broker giveaway

Chetwood Bank is giving brokers who register with ModaMortgages the chance to win a...

Landbay cuts buy-to-let rates by up to 25bps across range

Landbay has reduced rates across its entire buy-to-let range by as much as 25...

Major lenders signal easing pressure on mortgage rates

Signs of renewed competition are emerging in the mortgage market as several major lenders...

Accord launches new range with cashback boost for first-time buyers

Accord Mortgages has unveiled a new range of residential and buy-to-let products, introducing rate...

Assetz Capital eases developer funding by accepting planning gain as equity

Assetz Capital has introduced a major update to its development finance product, allowing full...

Vida broadens landlord range with new Consumer BTL offering

Vida Homeloans has expanded its specialist buy-to-let proposition with the launch of a new...

Barclays reduces rates with new products and cuts across higher LTV range

Barclays is set to reduce rates across a number of its residential mortgage products...

Recognise Bank funds £2m bridge for complex Sheffield redevelopment

Recognise Bank has completed a £2m bridging loan on a derelict commercial site in...

COMMENT

Should mortgage advisers consider the emerging secondary market for life policies?

Mortgage advisers regularly help clients navigate major life changes. While much of the focus is naturally on borrowing, refinancing and insurance, there is another...

One mortgage journey no longer fits every borrower

In the mortgage market, we have lots of different ways of describing customers depending on where they are in their lives. We talk about...

Closing the protection gap starts with informed clients

Millions of people have no protection insurance coverage and could be left vulnerable in the event of a death in the family, serious illness...

The fall in BTL company formations isn’t the whole story

It is often the case with housing and mortgage market data that the headline figure attracts most of the attention, while some of the...

Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

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Monicio targets mortgage admin burden with AI-powered CRM

Mortgage technology provider Monicio has launched an AI-powered CRM designed to automate administrative work...

HSBC eases new-build part-exchange criteria

HSBC has changed its residential lending criteria for new-build buyers who part exchange their...

Plannr integrates Mortgage Brain tools into adviser workflow

Plannr has partnered with Mortgage Brain to connect mortgage sourcing and lender submissions with...

Barclays hikes mortgage rates for second time in a week

Barclays is increasing fixed mortgage rates for the second time this week as rising...

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