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Vida unveils new intermediary decisioning hub

Vida has launched a new centralised decisioning unit. At the core of this new...

Cornerstone Finance adopts Acre’s mortgage platform

Cornerstone Finance has become the latest large brokerage to go live with Acre's platform...

The Exeter introduces lower cost healthcare alternative

Protection and health insurer, the Exeter, has announced the inclusion of a new guided...

Coventry for Intermediaries cuts all residential fixed rates

Coventry for Intermediaries has reduced all owner-occupier fixed rates. Two, three and five-year options have...

New brokerage to focus on bridging and commercial business

Nick Simmons is launching a new mortgage brokerage, The Finance Company, alongside Magnus Duke...

BuildLoan increases multiples for higher income self-builders

BuildLoan has increased its range of self and custom build mortgages with the launch...

Virgin Money ups variable mortgage rates

Virgin Money has announced changes to its mortgage variable revert rates, following the announcement...

Newcastle Intermediaries improves residential mortgage offering

Newcastle Intermediaries is cutting rates by up to 0.3 percentage points across its existing...

Suffolk BS unveils new chairman

Suffolk Building Society is welcoming Peter Elcock as its new chairman, succeeding Alan Harris...

Keystone passes major lending milestone

Keystone Property Finance has completed more than £1bn in buy-to-let loans. The milestone has...

Nationwide reports 1.4% monthly fall in house prices

Annual UK house price growth slowed to 4.4% in November, from 7.2% in October,...

IMLA announces new management committee

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has elected its Management Committee for 2023, consisting...

Pepper appoints BDM for North of England & Scotland

Pepper Money has promoted Anthony Fisher from the role of regional broker account manager...

Money more important than health and family to over-50s

Having enough money is more important to the majority of the UK’s over-50s than...
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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...

Advisers need an answer for evolving landlords

It’s a tough time to be a landlord. The succession of changes to tax and regulation made in recent years - with the Renters’...

AI doesn’t remove bias. It gives us the chance to manage it

One of the great promises of artificial intelligence has always been objectivity. Machines, unlike people, do not have bad days. They do not favour...

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Target Group launches staff AI programme for regulated finance

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Employment history rises up brokers’ mortgage search agenda

Employment history became a more pressing concern for mortgage brokers in July as changing...
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Half of homes taking longer to sell as regional divide widens

Homes in almost half of Great Britain’s local authority areas are taking longer to...
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The uncomfortable truth about the later life lending market

The headlines around the latest Equity Release Council figures released this month all suggested...

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