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LiveMore ups max loan and allows more adverse

LiveMore has increased the maximum loan value across its core range of products from...

Gen H to show credit commitments to brokers during application stage

From now on, Gen H will show mortgage brokers the details of their clients’...

2023 a record year for AIG Life protection payouts

AIG Life paid out a record £394m in protection insurance claims in 2024. The firm helped...

Advisers see 2024 as good year for protection growth

iPipeline has reported that 47% of the advisers in the UK who responded to...

Royal London strengthens income protection proposition

Royal London has made a series of updates to strengthen and expand the flexibility...

Mark Shelper returns to Pepper Money

Mark Shelper has rejoined Pepper Money as a national key account manager. Shelper (pictured) had...

Atom bank cuts large commercial mortgage rates

Atom bank has announced a series of rate reductions on its commercial mortgage range,...

Word On The Street appoints case manager

Mortgage brokerage Word On The Street has appointed Danielle Beswick as case manager. Beswick (pictured)...

April Mortgages extends HLPartnership distribution

April Mortgages has provided access to its mortgage range to all HLPartnership advisers and...

Increase in landlord appetite for portfolio expansion

44% of landlords intend to buy property in the next 12 months, according to...

Newcastle for Intermediaries launches new digital mortgage platform

Newcastle for Intermediaries has launched a new mortgage platform for its broker partners as...

Optimum Finance appoints senior regional director

Optimum Finance has promoted Paul Green to senior regional director. Green (pictured) will...

Landlords increasingly investing in semi-commercial properties

Landlords are increasingly moving towards semi-commercial property, with applications almost doubling in 2024 compared...

The Exeter reveals Heath MOT take-up

The Exeter has published new data around its recently launched Health MOT service and...

COMMENT

Advisers should be brave enough to drown out the noise

If you thought the economic and mortgage market commentary had been particularly noisy recently, I suspect you haven't heard anything yet, because with the...

Expat buy-to-let: a smaller world, a bigger picture

There has been no shortage of gloomy commentary about buy-to-let of late, so you might wonder why anyone living overseas would want to invest...

Taking the anxiety out of finance

It’s an anxious time for mortgage borrowers. A recent study by Handelsbanken Wealth found that the proportion of UK adults apprehensive about making mortgage...

Cashback should put conveyancing into the advice conversation

One of the more interesting findings from our latest quarterly statistics was the position of Nationwide Building Society, which accounted for 25% of all...

Why ownership structure matters in buy-to-let

It's a scenario brokers encounter every day. Two landlord clients approach them about the same type of buy-to-let property, with similar levels of equity...

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‘The Godfather’ joins Mortgage’s Got Talent judging panel

John ‘The Godfather’ Malone has been recruited as a judge for Mortgage’s Got Talent,...

Royal London introduces AI menopause support tool for staff

Royal London has launched an AI-powered tool designed to help employees and managers access...

Your First Home delays could stall first-time buyer market

Delays in launching the government's Your First Home scheme could cause first-time buyers to...

Foundation recruits former Metro Bank BDM to cover eastern region

Foundation has appointed Foz Ahmad as regional account manager for the East, bringing 12...

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