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MBT Affordability partners with Mpowered Mortgages

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has integrated its research platform with MPowered Mortgages. MBT markets itself...

Q&A: Melanie Spencer, One Mortgage System

BestAdvice fires the questions at Melanie Spencer, business partnership & growth director, One Mortgage...

Advise Wise joins Folding@home initiative

Advise Wise has announced its partnership with Folding@home, a distributed computing project aimed at...

Phoebus publishes ESG report

Phoebus has published its second ESG report, outlining what it does to maintain and...

Conveyancing Association releases new version of Technical Protocol

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has published the fifth edition of its Conveyancing Technical Protocol. The...

Iress adds self-build feature to MSO platform

Iress has announced the launch of a self-build feature within its MSO software. The...

MBT adds credit status into research platform

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has integrated credit status into its affordability-first research platform. This new...

Advise Wise adds Just online application submission

Advise Wise has introduced online application submission for Just products to its later life...

OMS appoints business relationship manager

One Mortgage System (OMS) has appointed Graham Beckett as a business relationship manager. Beckett (pictured)...

SmartSearch unveils new risk assessment service

Digital compliance provider SmartSearch has added a new ‘risk assessment’ solution to its recently...

Melton Building Society adopts ADP from LendingMetrics

Melton Building Society has appointed LendingMetrics to deliver its decisioning software. The mutual society is...

LiveMore introduces ‘counter-offer’ feature for brokers

LiveMore has unveiled a ‘counter-offer’ facility on its later life platform. Brokers just need to...

Conveyancing Association launches Future Digital Conveyancing Protocol

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has launched its Future Digital Conveyancing Protocol document to help...

Air introduces later life lending Navigator tool suite

Air has announced the launch of its new Later Life Lending Navigator, which has...

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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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