Technology

Mortgage Vision events to look at digital customer journeys

The 2017 Mortgage Vision events, organised and hosted by Mortgage Brain, will be providing...

PMS unveils new web solutions service

PMS Mortgage Club is looking to support its adviser firms with a new web...

Pure Retirement releases new online portal

Pure Retirement has unveiled a new broker portal which offers facilities for online applications,...

Senior hires for Target Group

Target Group has announced several new senior appointments to its board of directors and within its...

FSE 2017: ignore AI at your peril

Speaking at Financial Services Expo (FSE) London yesterday, James Tucker, managing director at Twenty7Tec,...

Connect for Intermediaries partners with Knowledge Bank

Connect for Intermediaries has become the first network and packager on the new criteria...

“UK’s first criteria search system” launches

Knowledge Bank, which claims to be the UK’s first criteria search system, has...

The Right PMI improves sourcing system

The Right PMI has announced a number of new developments to its PMI sourcing...

Mint Bridging selects Safe4 service

Mint Bridging has adopted the Safe4 service from Safe4 Information Management to provide a secure cloud platform...

Metro Bank appoints new CIO

Metro Bank has announced the appointment of Martyn Atkinson as chief information officer (CIO). He...

eTech develops Buy To Let Hub for portfolio landlord market

In light of the imminent regulatory changes from the Prudential Regulation Authority relating to...

Hometrack wins supplier award

Hometrack has been awarded ‘Supplier of the Year’ at the fourth annual Barclays Global...

Magellan unveils new mortgage portal

Magellan Homeloans has launched Magellan Hub, a new mortgage portal which enables mortgage intermediaries...

Twenty7Tec optimises MortgageSource API

Twenty7Tec has made improvements to the API (Application Programming Interface) for its MortgageSource 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...

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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