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Roma Finance joins Legal & General Mortgage Club panel

Roma Finance has become the latest provider to joins the panel of Legal &...

OSB sales teams restructured

Precise Mortgages, Kent Reliance for Intermediaries and InterBay Commercial sales teams have been restructured. Field-based...

Knowledge Bank sees shake-up in criteria searches

Knowledge Bank has reported a change in criteria searches in December. The largest change last...

Octane Capital makes sales team hires

Octane Capital has announced two new additions to its sales team. Hattie Hall joins Octane...

Roma Finance joins Mortgage Market Alliance

Roma Finance has become the latest founder member to join the Mortgage Market Alliance...

Suros Capital partners with Loans Warehouse

Luxury asset lender, Suros Capital, has joined the lender panel of specialist distributor, Loans...

Tuscan opens new regional office and creates director role

Bridging lender Tuscan Capital has made a new senior level broker-facing appointment and opened...

Hope Capital joins Optimum ELITE panel

Bridging lender Hope Capital has joined the Optimum ELITE lending panel. This partnership will provide...

Aspen funds Passivhaus development in six days

Aspen Bridging has completed a £450,000 facility to fund the final build stages of...

Shawbrook issues bridging market bulletin

Shawbrook Bank has partnered with the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) to...

Avamore Capital integrates with Nivo

Avamore Capital has continued to digitise its end-to-end lending process with the integration of...

LendInvest uses Salesforce for bridging originations

LendInvest has unveiled a cloud-based application for customers seeking short-term lending products. The new...

Aspen completes £1m four-day bridge

Aspen Bridging has completed a £1m bridge in four working days for a Hong...

Brokers increasing number of furloughed worker searches

Knowledge Bank’s monthly criteria index has revealed that in November 'furloughed workers’ returned to...

COMMENT

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

Latest news

SortRefer marks 17 years with record month for instructions and completions

SortRefer has marked its 17th anniversary after reporting its strongest monthly performance to date...

The Mortgage Works cuts buy-to-let rates on selected new business deals

The Mortgage Works is cutting selected buy-to-let and let-to-buy rates by up to 0.20...

Primis promotes three in push to expand recruitment and regional broker support

Primis has promoted three senior executives as it seeks to recruit more adviser firms...

Santander cuts higher LTV rates for first-time buyers and home movers

Santander is cutting selected fixed mortgage rates across its first-time buyer, home mover and...

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