Technology

60 adviser firms add online protection comparison service

60 intermediary businesses have now added a LifeQuote-powered protection comparison service to their website, allowing clients...

Criteria Hub adds Landbay to system

Criteria Hub has expanded its lender base with Landbay becoming the latest lender whose...

CoreLogic acquires eTech Solutions

eTech Solutions Limited has announced the completion of its acquisition by CoreLogic, a global...

Knowledge Bank offers second charge criteria search

Criteria search system Knowledge Bank has announced a partnership with Loans Warehouse. Master broker Loans Warehouse...

Castle Trust unveils ‘AI quotation engine’

Castle Trust has introduced what it claims to be the industry’s first quotation engine...

SimplyBiz Group launches referral solutions for advisers

The SimplyBiz Group has announced the launch of SimplyRefer, a range of third party...

The Bucks BS launches new broker online portal

The Buckinghamshire Building Society has unveiled its Broker Online system. The mutual said the launch...

Anti-money laundering firm moves into financial services

SmartSearch, an anti-money laundering (AML) firm, is expanding through the mortgage and financial services...

Trussle introduces mortgage monitoring service

Online broker Trussle is offering a mortgage monitoring service to all UK homeowners. The free service continually...

‘Full’ digital conveyancing one step closer

Changes to Land Registration rules announced today (23 January) will mean the UK is moving closer...

Complete FS partners with AToM in One Mortgage System

Complete FS has become the second packager, after AToM, to go live with One...

New website for Sirius Property Finance

Sirius Property Finance has launched its new website. The the high net worth and corporate...

JLM network to offer ‘robo proposition’

JLM Mortgage Services has become the first mortgage network to launch the first stage of...

New rent reporting system unveiled

A new platform has launched today that links tenants’ rental payments with their Experian...

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

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...

House prices stall as mortgage costs and Budget uncertainty weigh on market

UK house prices were unchanged in September as higher mortgage rates and wider economic...

Remortgage activity rebounds as higher rates weigh on home purchases

Remortgage applications returned to annual growth in the third quarter, helping to offset a...

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