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TML restructures residential product proposition

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has restructured its residential products and criteria in a move...

Q3 promises to be strongest intermediary lending quarter of 2023

The latest Mortgage Market Tracker report from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) reveals...

New head of mortgage sales at Hinckley & Rugby

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has announced the appointment of its new head...

FTBs turning to friends and family rather than brokers for advice

First-time buyers aged 18 to 34, are primarily relying on advice from family and...

Paragon Structured Lending completes £55m in new financing agreements

Paragon Bank’s Structured Lending division has completed £55 million of new finance facilities in...

Short-term asset lender reveals 3% commission offer

Luxury asset lender, Suros Capital, is offering brokers 3% commission on loans secured against...

Source Insurance adds Insurer Hosted Pricing to panel

Source Insurance has welcomed Insurer Hosted Pricing (IHP) to its home insurance panel. Source has...

Portfolio landlords remain bullish about prospects

Portfolio landlords remain largely undeterred in expanding their property portfolios, despite the high inflationary...

VAS Valuation Group bolsters Knowledge Hub video library

VAS Valuation Group has added six new videos to its Knowledge Hub programme as...

More needs-based borrowing from lifetime mortgage cash releases

Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement has discovered a mixed picture among those who access...

One third of older homeowners see themselves as vulnerable

32% of people aged 50–79 years consider themselves vulnerable, according to a LiveMore survey...

Zephyr Homeloans adds new two-year fixed rate deal to range

Zephyr Homeloans has announced a new two-year fixed-rate mortgage as well as a 100bps...

Legal & General Ignite integrates with Smartr365

Legal & General Mortgage Services has announced that its mortgage research and product sourcing...

Former Spring CEO launches new short-term lender

Gavin Diamond has announced the launch of a new specialist short-term lender, Inspired Lending. The...
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The case for tech fluency before AI adoption in the mutual sector

It often feels like there is only one conversation taking place in financial services at the moment: artificial intelligence. Whether it’s trade shows and...

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...

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