Technology

Lloyds Banking Group joins Open Property Data Association

Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) has become a member of the Open Property Data Association...

Roundtable held on future of home buying and selling 

In a bid to support improving the home buying and selling process, industry leaders...

Brightstar renews Source deal with Twenty7tec

The Brightstar Group has renewed its Source license agreement with technology provider, Twenty7tec. The...

Paradigm in technology partnership with Acre

Acre, the intermediary platform, has announced a new partnership with Paradigm, the mortgage, protection...

OneDome offers free KYC and AML checks to estate agents

OneDome, the digital homebuying platform, is offering unlimited free digital KYC and AML checks...

Client vulnerabilities being missed by lack of technology

MorganAsh has warned that those firms that haven't integrated technology to complete essential vulnerability...

Legal & General Home Finance adopts Optimo

Finova's decisioning engine, Optimo, has been adopted by Legal & General Home Finance to...

The Right Mortgage to adopt Acre for CRM

The Right Mortgage has announced a new relationship with Acre, the intermediary platform. Acre’s...

Nottingham BS to integrate MQube’s Origo

Nottingham Building Society has partnered with MQube to incorporate MQube’s AI-driven mortgage origination platform...

Air extends Canada Life partnership

Air, the later life lending platform, has extended its partnership with Canada Life for...

SmartSearch appoints new VP of technology

SmartSearch has promoted Andrew Booth to the position of vice president of technology, one...

Buckinghamshire BS goes live with new mortgage portal

Buckinghamshire Building Society has announced the launch of its new online mortgage portal. The platform...

360 Dotnet and HLPartnership renew partnership

360 Dotnet, the platform used by over 6,000 advisers, has announced the renewal of...

LendInvest adds buy-to-let business into new mortgages portal

LendInvest Mortgages has launched a redesigned and updated Mortgages Portal which now includes LendInvest’s...

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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