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HTB creates new team lead roles for specialist mortgages

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced several changes to its specialist mortgages team. Greg Barnard...

CA to host Client and Matter Risk Assessments webinar

The Conveyancing Association (CA) is to hold a webinar for member firms focused on...

Newcastle for Intermediaries makes non-EEA criteria changes

Newcastle for Intermediaries has made improvements to its lending policy with several criteria changes. These...

Gen H broadens income booster eligibility

Gen H will now accept nieces, nephews and friends as 'income boosters'. Friends can act...

Saffron for Intermediaries makes improvements across mortgage offering

Saffron for Intermediaries has made rate reductions across a number of products. The changes are...

West One Loans improves residential and second charge product ranges

West One Loans has made key changes to its residential and second charge product...

Acre predicts £20bn in completions on platform

Acre has reported that its platform usage has doubled in the past 12 months. The...

Work-related mental health is worsening, says MIMHC

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC) is urging the industry to undergo systemic...

Buckinghamshire BS sees major later life lending growth

Buckinghamshire Building Society has reported an important rise in the take-up of its later...

April Mortgages appoints director of risk and compliance

April Mortgages has appointed Stephanie Burke as director of risk and compliance. Burke (pictured) has...

Pepper Money holds wellbeing event for brokers

Pepper Money has hosted its first broker wellbeing event for 40 invited guests. The...

Gosai returns to Brilliant Solutions

Brilliant Solutions has announced the appointment of Sonny Gosai as bridging & commercial director....

MPowered Mortgages makes further two-year fixed rate cuts

MPowered Mortgages has reduced rates across its two-year fixed rate purchase mortgage range for...

SPF Private Clients hires head of asset finance

SPF Private Clients has announced that Charlie Jenkins has joined as head of asset...
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How brokers can secure better client outcomes in a volatile market

Experience has always counted in the mortgage market. Brokers who worked through the financial crisis, the Covid pandemic, the Liz Truss mini-Budget and cost-of-living...

Housing reform needs a thriving private rental sector, not just a thriving sales and purchase market

One of the most encouraging developments over recent weeks has been the renewed focus on improving the homebuying and selling process. The Government's plans to...

The economics of developing the next generation of advisers

Over the past couple of decades, I have worked alongside literally thousands of AR and DA firms, from businesses employing one or two advisers...

Is Andy Burnham the New Messiah or just Starmer with better eyebrows?

What a damning indictment of Labour that Andy Burnham appears to be strolling towards the leadership in what looks less like a contest and...

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...

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