Technology

SMG makes Lenderlink API available to all

All second charge mortgage packagers are now able to register for a free Lenderlink...

OMS launches the first two-way DIP integration with Kent Reliance

One Mortgage System (OMS) has become the first to fully integrate with Kent Reliance...

Capital Home Loans now live on Phoebus servicing

Capital Home Loans (CHL) has migrated to the Phoebus servicing platform. The implementation includes...

New online hub unveiled by Paymentshield

Paymentshield has introduced its new Adviser Hub, which is designed to provide advisers with...

John Charcol adopts Criteria Hub platform

Criteria Hub, the self-styled 'deep search' criteria engine, is the provide John Charcol's DA...

Knowledge Bank launches ‘World Cup special’

Knowledge Bank, the broker criteria search system, has launched a World Cup special, offering...

Technology should cut down “horrendous” paper trail

Brokers attending yesterday's FSE Wales exhibition heard that the increased use of technology solutions,...

DPR Group acquires online mortgage broker

Mortgage technology provider DPR has acquired online mortgage broker Burrow. The move follows on from...

Phoebus reaches £40bn milestone

Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) has reported that client lending and savings balances serviced on its...

SmartSearch launches integrated app

Anti-money laundering (AML) form SmartSearch has launched an integrated app to allow AML checks...

Accord offers broker online review service

Accord Mortgages has introduced a new online review generator with the aim of helping...

VIBE Finance selects OMS

One Mortgage System (OMS) has been chosen by specialist brokerage VIBE Finance. The newly launched directly...

Hinckley & Rugby goes live on MortgageApply

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has become one of the first lenders to...

Partnership aims to improve valuation panel management

Valuation panel and audit services business, VAS Group, has signed an exclusive agreement with...

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...

Latest news

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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