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Pure Retirement introduces equity release Android app

Pure Retirement has launched its new adviser-facing mobile app. The firm believes it to be...

Shawbrook gives Broker Partners access to eTech Buy to Let hub 

Shawbrook Bank has announced that its Broker Partners will now have access to the...

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...

COMMENT

I’m 49. My dad’s 73. Between us we’ve found the hole in later life lending

I turn 50 in December, and the marketing has already started. Funeral plans, over-50s life cover, “guaranteed acceptance” adverts wedged between the football highlights....

Buying scale was phase one. What happens next?

Mortgage distribution is in a race for scale. Capital wants market share. Consolidators want distribution. Networks want advisers. Good businesses are commanding serious valuations. If I...

Slow completions are costing brokers. Five steps can help protect their pipelines

Through my conversations with mortgage brokers, and Landmark’s work across the wider home-moving process, I see the same pattern repeatedly. Once a mortgage has...

The industry needs to prepare now for Your First Home

The government’s announcement of the Your First Home scheme is genuinely positive news, and anything that boosts confidence among first-time buyers and people trying...

Why advisers can be part of the conveyancing team

There is a tendency to think the mortgage adviser’s involvement in conveyancing begins with recommending a firm and then largely ends once the client...

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TPFG buys 25% stake in property and mortgage AI business Enteka

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) has taken a 25% stake in Enteka AI as...

Property professionals back homebuying reforms, CSS poll finds

More than three-quarters of property professionals believe proposed changes to the homebuying and selling...

Accord cuts buy-to-let rates by up to 0.43%

Accord Mortgages is reducing selected buy-to-let rates by up to 0.43 percentage points, with...

Mortgage Brain embeds LMS conveyancing service into CRM Brain

Mortgage Brain has integrated the LMS Select conveyancing platform directly into CRM Brain, allowing...

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