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Smart Money People opens Lender Benchmark for broker feedback

Smart Money People, the financial services review site, has opened its doors for intermediary...

Nottingham BS increases procuration fee

Nottingham Building Society has announced a series of changes, including increased procuration fees and...

MBT adds credit status into research platform

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has integrated credit status into its affordability-first research platform. This new...

Precise Mortgages lowers assessment and stress rates

Precise Mortgages has simplified the minimum ICR for personal ownership applications and improved how...

The Co-operative Bank rebrands Platform

Platform, the intermediary lender of The Co-operative Bank, has been rebranded to become The...

Advise Wise adds Just online application submission

Advise Wise has introduced online application submission for Just products to its later life...

MBE London lineup and seminar programme revealed

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced the complete line-up of speakers and panellists for...

Gen H cuts rates by a further 20 bps

Gen H has announced its latest rate reductions across products up to and including...

OMS appoints business relationship manager

One Mortgage System (OMS) has appointed Graham Beckett as a business relationship manager. Beckett (pictured)...

Bank of Mum & Dad now protecting loans to children

The Bank of Mum and Dad is increasing its stake in the UK’s mortgage...

80% of landlords says they were prepared for EPC proposals

UK landlords say they were in the main prepared for the government’s proposed Energy...

Fleet Mortgages cuts two and five-year fixed rates

Fleet Mortgages has reduced rates on all two and five-year fixes, as well as...

Black & White Bridging appoints director of business development

Black & White Bridging has announced the appointment of bridging professional, Danny Power, as...

MPowered Mortgages cuts rates by up to 0.12 percentage points

MPowered Mortgages has announced rate reductions across its complete range of fixed rate products.  ...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let and the next generation of landlords

There has been plenty of discussion recently about the future of buy-to-let, whether landlords can continue to make their investments work, and what the...

Growth can hide a lot – until it stops

Since getting involved with Rotherham United Women I've realised football and business have quite a lot in common. One thing in particular: growth can hide...

Nobody wants your ‘market update’

You sent the same email on Monday that everyone else sent. Moneyfacts had just put the average five-year fix at 6%, the first time in...

The industry needs to support Shared Ownership

This week, I want to put the spotlight on Shared Ownership. It deserves to be treated as a genuinely viable route onto the ladder,...

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...

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Paragon appoints Fulford to lead specialist buy-to-let lending

Paragon Bank has promoted Matt Fulford to head of specialist lending in its mortgages...

Council tax reform tops homeowners’ Budget priorities

More than a third of homeowners and prospective buyers want the government to review...

My Legal Club adds three firms to conveyancing panel

My Legal Club has appointed three law firms to its conveyancing panel as it...

Gatehouse Capital strengthens Scottish broker support with new appointment

Gatehouse Capital has appointed Hanif Hussain as business development manager for Scotland as it...

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