Technology

Twenty7Tec adds to intermediary team

Twenty7Tec has made a number of new hires in its intermediary support and account...

L&G Mortgage Club sees 1,000 registrations for SmartrCriteria after seven days

Legal & General Mortgage Club has passed 1,000 broker registrations in the first week...

Mortgage Brain appoints national account manager quartet

Mortgage Brain has finalised the appointment of four new national account managers. Matt Surridge, a former...

Network pair adopt SmartrCriteria

Mortgage networks, HLPartnership and Mortgage Support Network, have revealed that their members will have...

Legal & General Mortgage Club unveils SmartrCriteria

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced the launch of SmartrCriteria, a digital system...

Networks open January workshops to non-members

Mortgage and Protection networks  HLPartnership (HLP) and Mortgage Support Network (MSN) are non-members to...

Commercial Trust improved online BTL comparison table

Commercial Trust has unveiled its enhanced buy-to-let comparison table for customers, adding a number...

TSB teams up with the Met to tackle fraud

TSB has embarked upon a new £200,000 partnership with the Metropolitan Police to improve...

Bluestone launches Open Banking pilot

Bluestone Mortgages has launched the pilot phase of its Open Banking solution. It claims to...

LendInvest partners with Mortgage Brain

LendInvest has teamed up with Mortgage Brain to bring its buy-to-let product to a...

Scottish Widows Bank unveils new mortgage broker portal

Scottish Widows Bank has unveiled SWB Click, its new online portal for brokers. SWB Click...

Knowledge Bank makes “permanent” 40% price cut

Knowledge Bank has permanently reduced the cost of subscribing to its criteria search system...

Molo and My Home Move to offer fully digital conveyancing

Molo has partnered with My Home Move to integrate the conveyancing service into its...

Mortgage brokers are benefiting from growing web traffic

A new report from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has found that a...

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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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Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you...

Richard Goppy to rejoin PMS as director of acquisition and key accounts

PMS Mortgage Club has confirmed the appointment of Richard Goppy as director of acquisition...

Renters’ Rights Act to reshape buy-to-let risk models

The Renters’ Rights Act is set to trigger a fundamental shift in how lenders assess risk...

MAB research shows confidence among buyers is rising, but many still hesitate

More than half of prospective buyers say they are ready to purchase in 2026,...

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