News

The Nottingham allows product selection at DIP stage

Nottingham Building Society has made a major change in its mortgage application process. The...

Legal & General Home Finance improves lifetime mortgage repayment options

Legal & General Home Finance has enhanced its Optional Partial Repayments feature on its...

Paragon funds Horsnall Holdings’ Wharf development

Horsnall Holdings has completed the construction of The Wharf, a 55-unit scheme in Waterside...

MorganAsh adds protection triage service to MARS tool

MorganAsh has added a new triage service to its MARS vulnerability software, to help...

OSB appoints BDM for the South

Specialist lender OSB Group has promoted Joe Baxter to the role of customer-facing business...

LiveMore unveils flexible ‘5+5’ fixed rate mortgage

LiveMore has launched a 10-year mortgage for borrowers aged 50 to 90+, but with...

Mortgage Marketing Forum for Intermediaries launches

The Mortgage Marketing Forum has revealed announced details of a new membership website, designed...

360 Lifecycle reports £10.5bn in lending on platform for Q2

360 Dotnet has revealed that its platform, 360 Lifecycle, achieved various milestones in the...

Sharp rise in number of people seeking debt options

The Money Advice Trust, the charity that runs National Debtline and Business Debtline, has...

MAB’s foundation raises over £100k for community projects

The Mortgage Advice Bureau Foundation has raised more than £100,000 for a host of...

Karen Rodrigues joins MFS

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has appointed Karen Rodrigues as its new head of national...

Spring Finance revises second charge offering

Specialist lender Spring Finance has made changes to its second charge product range. The...

Berkeley Alexander introduces PI panel

General insurance provider Berkeley Alexander has launched a new Professional Indemnity (PI) panel of...

Bibby Financial Services appoints BDM for Scotland

Invoice finance provider, Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has appointed Gayle Robertson as business development...

COMMENT

Underwriting: Are we saying “no” to the wrong risks?

Over the last two days I’ve talked about the size of the later life lending market and the knowledge gap that still exists around...

The blind spot: residential advisers and the over-55 customer

Yesterday I talked about the supportive nature of the equity release and later life lending community and the fact that collaboration is one of...

The uncomfortable truth about the later life lending market

The headlines around the latest Equity Release Council figures released this month all suggested growth. But I think we need to have an honest...

Are we actually set up to support first-time buyers?

After a summer spent thinking it over, this time of year is often the point where first time buyers decide whether they're going to...

Leasehold reform has a September window – will Burnham use it?

At the time of writing, the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill still has no published First Reading date.  But is it imminent? Andy Burnham entered...

Latest news

Access FS mortgage business rises 46.8% in record July

Access Financial Services recorded its strongest month for mortgage business in July, with activity...

LiveMore launches mortgage podcast for brokers and advisers

LiveMore has launched a podcast series covering developments in the specialist and later-life lending...

Mortgage myths deter would-be first-time buyers

Misconceptions about mortgage eligibility may be prompting aspiring first-time buyers to abandon their plans...

Dudley Building Society publishes guide to trusts

Dudley Building Society has published a guide explaining how trusts can be used to...

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