Technology

OMS appoints business relationship manager

One Mortgage System (OMS) has embarked upon a new recruitment campaign with the addition...

Criteria searches for Help to Buy Equity Loan Scheme up by 10%

First-time buyers are persisting with Help to Buy purchases, with the 31st March cut-off-point...

ColCap acquires majority shareholding in Molo

ColCap Financial and Molo Tech have announced that ColCap has acquired an 80% shareholding...

Twenty7tec adds Tandem Bank to SOURCE

Twenty7tec has added Tandem Bank to its SOURCE module. In 2022, Tandem Bank launched its...

Uinsure CX offers automated insurance quotes for intermediaries

Uinsure has introduced a new technology, Uinsure CX, which it says allows firms and...

Phoebus partners with MIAC Analytics

Phoebus Software has partnered with MIAC Analytics, a firm which provides a range of...

Twenty7tec upgrades APPLY integration with Halifax

Twenty7tec has revealed that it has upgraded to its APPLY integration with Halifax. This...

Pure Retirement passes milestone with MyPure online platform

Pure Retirement has seen its first 1,000 customers register and interact with its online...

SmartrFit searches at highest level since September

Legal & General has revealed that users of its SmartrFit platform completed more total...

‘Powered by LifeSearch’ to drive move to embedded insurance

LifeSearch is enabling partner brands to offer digital protection products to their customers supported...

Acre and Simplify promise ‘fixed-price & transparent’ conveyancing for brokers

Acre, the mortgage intermediaries platform, has partnered with Simplify to give its brokers and...

£42bn facilitated through 360 Lifecycle in 2022

Adviser CRM platform, 360 Lifecycle, has revealed that it facilitated over £7 billion in...

Nivo appoints sales director

Nivo has appointed Damon Williams to the new role of sales director. Nivo delivers apps...

Conveyancers urged not to compete with technology

Conveyancers who attended this year’s Conveyancing Association Annual Conference & Dinner were urged not...

COMMENT

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

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Rent growth slows as house prices edge higher, with Middle East tensions clouding outlook

Private rent inflation eased again in March while UK house prices rose modestly in...

Gen H expands broker sales team with three BDM hires and internal promotion

Gen H has expanded its broker sales team with three new business development managers...

Detached homes dominate new lifetime mortgage lending in early 2026

Owners of detached properties accounted for more than four in 10 new lifetime mortgages...

Brokers invited to webinar on boosting landlord income strategies

Brokers are being offered an opportunity to learn how to help landlords accelerate income...

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