Technology

Vizolution expands sales team

Vizolution has expanded its sales team with the appointment Michael Padmanathan, Alex Noble and Oli...

New conveyancing business unveiled

A new technology-led conveyancing service, When You Move, has launched. Co-founded by entrepreneur Peter Goodman...

IRESS adds new XPLAN Mortgage module

IRES has announced the release of the Advice Module, the latest addition to its...

Blueberry Mortgages opts for Twenty7Tec sourcing

Mortgage brokerage Blueberry Mortgages has selected Mortgage Source from Twenty7Tec as its sole mortgage...

Broker Conveyancing to give away 20 tablets

Broker Conveyancing has published details of its annual January tablet giveaway. This month, every...

Mortgage Brain sees 23% uplift in broker attendance

Mortgage Brain's 2015 series of Mortgage Vision events, held during October and November, saw a...

Kensington unveils new intermediary website

Kensington has launched its new website for intermediaries, following broker feedback. The lender says it...

Skipton unveils intermediary web chat pilot

Skipton Intermediaries has introduced a trial web chat service for its broker partners London...

The Source hails new platform as ‘game changer’

General insurance provider Source Insurance has launched its new platform, claiming it will revolutionise...

New service promises ‘better deal’ notification

Online mortgage adviser Trussle is offering a free service which it claims automatically determines...

Promise completes first integrated Precise deal

Promise Solutions has completed its integration with Precise Mortgages which allows data to be...

Secured loan broker system unveiled

Equiniti Pancredit has announced the launch of Broker Client, an automated secured loan sourcing...

Hope Capital opts for Target Bluechip’s bridging system

Target Group is to supply its bridging lending system to Hope Capital Bridging Finance,...

Skipton unveils new broker portal

Skipton Intermediaries has launched a eMortgage portal, which it claims provides its broker partners...

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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Wider mortgage options put borrower circumstances in focus on Lenders Live

Borrowers with historic credit problems and smaller deposits have more routes to explore, but...

Christodoulides joins ConveyBuddy as head of distribution

Former NatWest national account manager Luke Christodoulides has joined ConveyBuddy as head of distribution. Christodoulides...

MorganAsh adds BSL translation to customer websites

MorganAsh has introduced British Sign Language translations across its corporate website and itswhoiam.me consumer...

London flat owners face highest risk of resale losses

Nearly four in 10 London flats resold after being held for between five and...

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