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91% rise in adverse credit mortgage searches

Searches for customers with adverse credit rose by 90.7% year-on-year in 2023, according to...

Aspen Bridging reaches lending milestone

Aspen Bridging has achieved £500m in total lending from when the business was founded...

Countrywide Surveying Services joins Equity Release Council

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS), a supplier of valuation panel management services, has become an...

HTB cuts semi-commercial mortgage rates by up to 50bps

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has unveiled new rate reductions across all its two and...

Pepper adds e-signatures for second charges

Pepper Money can now accept e-signatures on second charge mortgage offer documents, including the...

Strong end to 2023 for bridging loan market

Latest data from the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has revealed that bridging...

UTB introduces new second charge binding offer process

United Trust Bank (UTB) Mortgages for Intermediaries is seeking to cut second charge loan...

InterBay cuts semi-commercial rates

InterBay, part of OSB Group, has reduced rates across semi-commercial products for purchase and...

Dudley Building Society appoints NED

Dudley Building Society has announced the appointment of Mike Hudson as a non executive...

Gen H joins FinTech FinCrime Exchange

Gen H it has joined the 270+ fintechs which make up FINTRAIL’s FinTech FinCrime...

The Right Mortgage to adopt Acre for CRM

The Right Mortgage has announced a new relationship with Acre, the intermediary platform. Acre’s...

Key: reasons to be cheerful for equity release market

Increased product innovation in the equity release market, combined with expected base rate cuts...

Molo Finance unveils new CEO

Molo Finance has announced the appointment of Matthew Kimber as its chief executive officer...

CLSQ to hold free webinar on addressing flood risk

CLSQ has outlined details of a free live roundtable webinar for insurers, adjustors and...

COMMENT

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

Why post-contract variation is becoming the mortgage market’s next battleground

For much of the past decade, mortgage technology investment has focused on origination and with good reason. Faster decisions in principle, automated affordability assessments,...

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Beverley enhances SIPP income assessment

Beverley Building Society has introduced a tiered approach to assessing income from self-invested personal...

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM)...

Conveyancing costs hold at 0.53% of house prices

Conveyancing costs remained unchanged as a proportion of UK house prices during the year...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers...

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