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360 Dotnet partners with Mortgage Brain

360 Dotnet, the CRM platform, has partnered with Mortgage Brain. The result is that users...

Gen H appoints head of lending

Gen H has announced the appointment of Karen Appleton as its new head of...

Countrywide Surveying Services appoints performance director

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS), a supplier of property risk management, valuations and customer surveys,...

Truffle secures £500k second charge with Pepper Money

Truffle Specialist Finance has completed a £500,000 second charge mortgage with Pepper Money, used...

BSA mortgage chief to provide keynote speech at MBE North

Paul Broadhead, head of mortgages and housing at the Building Societies Association (BSA), has...

Roma Finance reveals redemptions record

Roma Finance has reported a record month of redemptions for volume and value in...

Standard Life Home Finance to offer discounts to borrowers who commit to regular payments

UK equity release lender Standard Life Home Finance is to add to its Horizon...

Perenna launches flexible RIO mortgage

Perenna has added a flexible, long-term fixed rate retirement interest only (RIO) mortgage to...

Somo offers ‘One Month Interest Free’ deal during February

Specialist lending firm Somo Bridging has launched its ‘One Month Interest Free’ deal for...

Cynergy Business Finance appoints new corporate sales director

Asset-based lending specialist, Cynergy Business Finance (CBF), has added to its team with the...

Lenders and advisers want U-turn on scrapping of EPC legislation

Mortgage lenders and advisers would like to see a government U-turn following the relaxation...

MFS unveils valuation fee refund initiative

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) is to provide a full refund on valuation fees for...

Coventry for intermediaries extends Live Chat availability

Coventry for intermediaries has extended its Live Chat opening hours, providing brokers with an...

Legal & General Home Finance in API integration with Advise Wise Platform

Legal & General Home Finance has launched an Application Programming Interface (API) link with...

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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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Bridging Soup launches major market research initiative

Bridging Soup has launched a new research initiative to build a clearer picture of...

Just one in seven homes records five years of growth

Fewer than one in seven UK homes increased in value during every year of...

Word On The Street arranges £108m of property finance in record year

Word On The Street arranged more than £108 million of property finance across 239...

Beverley enhances SIPP income assessment

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

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