Technology

Mortgage Brain develops affordability calculator for mutual

Mortgage Brain has partnered with the Harpenden Building Society to develop a new affordability...

LendingMetrics delivers credit decisioning solution to Morses Club

LendingMetrics as been appointed by the Home Collected Credit division of Morses Club to...

Knowledge Bank adds new cladding categories

Knowledge Bank has introduced new criteria categories including one to support brokers to find...

MBT unveils criteria search tool

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has introduced a criteria search tool which allows users to...

Knowledge Bank and Iress to provide integrated search

Knowledge Bank and Iress have teamed to a fully-integrated product and criteria sourcing system. The...

New CEO for Mortgage Brain

Mortgage Brain has announced that Zahid Bilgrami has been appointed as group CEO and...

Online bridging lender launched by platform

Portfolio management platform, Lendlord, has unveiled an online bridging lender for property investors. Available on...

Mortgage Brain to hold March Mortgage Vision event online

Mortgage Brain is to hold its Mortgage Vision event in March in a new...

Self-employed mortgage affordability still an issue

There is at least one lender available to meet the loan requirements of self-employment...

Phoebus Software looks to raise £10k for nominated charity

Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) has chosen its nominated charity for the year ahead. In 2021,...

Mortgage Brain’s Lendex now open to all advisers

Following a pilot, Mortgage Brain has made Lendex available to all mortgage advisers. Lendex is a the...

Together in short-term lending partnership with L&G

Together's bridging products have been added to Legal & General’s digital criteria service designed...

Smartr365 unveils video and audio call functionality

Smartr365 has introduced a new feature called SmartrTalk, powered by Microsoft. The end-to-end platform for...

BEP Systems to provide lending solutions to Jordan International Bank

BEP Systems has been appointed by Jordan International Bank Plc (JIB) to provide system...

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...

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The Market Harborough reaches £1m community funding milestone

Market Harborough Building Society said it has committed £1 million to community causes over...

Accord publishes broker guide on recognising economic abuse in mortgage cases

Accord has published a new guide for mortgage brokers on how to identify and...

CHL completes £5m portfolio refinance as lender navigates time-sensitive case

CHL Mortgages has completed a £5 million refinance across 10 buy-to-let properties in south...

The 4.3 million borrowers your pipeline is probably missing

There are 4.3 million self-employed workers in the UK and nearly one in five...

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