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OSB Group backs Learning at Work Week with focus on career development

Specialist lender OSB Group is throwing its support behind Learning at Work Week with...

Perenna renews and expands ABN AMRO warehouse facility to fund growth

Perenna Bank has renewed and significantly expanded its warehouse funding line with ABN AMRO. The...

Conveybuddy appoints new senior account manager

Conveyancing distributor conveybuddy has announced the appointment of Rachel Payne as senior account manager. Payne...

The Leeds opens up additional borrowing to existing customers via Mortgage Hub

Leeds Building Society has launched a new facility enabling intermediaries to offer additional borrowing...

MT Finance expands J.P. Morgan forward flow deal to £2.5bn

MT Finance has expanded its forward flow agreement with J.P. Morgan by £1bn, taking...

Accord shaves fixed rate pricing across residential mortgage range

Accord Mortgages has cut rates across its residential range. The intermediary-only lender is reducing rates...

AMI confirms board election results

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has announced the results of its latest board...

Law Society unveils guidance to help conveyancers tackle climate risk

The Law Society of England and Wales has issued a new practice note aimed...

Darlington Building Society unveils high LTV fixed deals for complex cases

Darlington Building Society has introduced a series of rate reductions of up to 35...

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Sanders steps down from Allica Bank bridging role

Colin Sanders, one of the UK’s most experienced specialist lending bosses, has stepped down...

Barclays unveils further mortgage rate cuts, including lowest of the year

Barclays is cutting mortgage rates once again, with a new tranche of reductions coming...

MPowered Mortgages cuts 3-year fixed rates to 3.88%

MPowered Mortgages, the one day mortgage lender, has, against a backdrop of rising swap...

Habito joins forces with Mastercard to ease mortgage process for SMEs

Habito has announced a new partnership with Mastercard’s Business Bonus Scheme in a move...

Buy-to-let activity plunges as self-employed and first-time buyer demand surges

The UK mortgage market is undergoing a period of sharp contrasts, according to the...

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Approvals hit a 2.5-year low: When broker value gets proven – or missed

Net mortgage approvals dropped to 56,200 in May – the lowest since December 2023 - down from 66,000 the month before. Net borrowing fell from...

Removing friction from the homebuying journey

One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...

Build, baby, build? Well we will need to fund more than the usual suspects

There was a noticeable sense of optimism at UKREiiF this year. That may sound surprising given the economic headwinds of recent years, but the...

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market riding high

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market has created real value for customers – there’s no excuse to ignore it. When a UK borrower reaches 55,...

How small and medium-sized lenders can fix the origination headache

We are constantly told that to fix the mortgage journey, we need to rip everything out and start again. That unless a lender replaces its...

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UTB appoints Frankie Kitchen as BTL key account manager

United Trust Bank (UTB) Mortgages has appointed Frankie Kitchen as a buy-to-let key account...

OMS and Brightstar Group extend technology partnership

One Mortgage System (OMS), the CRM and loan origination platform for intermediaries and lenders,...

Nivo launches AI webinar sessions

Nivo has launched a new webinar programme focused on helping brokers and lenders understand...

Ecology BS launches 90% LTV renovation mortgage 

Ecology Building Society has further extended its range of renovation mortgages with a new...

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