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Mortgage advisers Larry Barreto and Tassib Hussain have been sentenced for fraud offences following a prosecution brought by the Financial Conduct...

The latest Mortgage Market Tracker report from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association reveals that confidence has returned to the mortgage market,...

Unbiased, a platform for connecting with prospective clients, has slashed charges it imposes on mortgage advisers for a second consecutive month. Unbiased...

Awareness of green mortgages is dipping among buyers, according to new research. Almost two thirds of mortgage advisers say their clients have...

Landlords need greater support from mortgage advisers in order to navigate the best course through the current economic climate. That’s according to...

Jo Breeden, managing director of Crystal Specialist Finance, writes: In his recent speech, the Prime Minister scrapped the proposed changes to EPC...

Mortgage and protection brokerage Access Financial Services has launched an in-house digital marketing and lead generation platform. Access FS has acquired a...

This week sees the start of Mortgage Vision, the free regional mortgage industry roadshow. Now in its 15th year, Mortgage Vision opens...

LSL resumes its acquisition trail by snapping up TenetLime, subject to FCA approval.   TenetLime operates a network providing services to 231 mortgage...

Proptech company OneDome’s mortgage advisory firm CMME is launching a new scheme exclusively designed for self-employed mortgage advisers. The brand wants to...

There’s general agreement amongst brokers and other finance sector professionals that the Bank of England will next week raise interest rates...

The Mortgage Brain platform is staging a 10-stop roadshow this autumn with the mission to, in its words, “educate and empower...

Nationwide Building Society has launched a new Home Energy Efficiency Tool to coincide with the debut of new green loan products. The...

The four-day work week has been a subject contemplated by many companies across the nation and Evolution Money has recently announced...

A new partnership between Hometrack and Mortgage Brain is set to provide a ‘game changing’ solution that streamlines and digitises the...

First Time Buyer’s Fortnight aims to give potential homebuyers the information they need to make more informed decisions about the home...

This week’s mortgage roundup is a range of reduced rates and new products across the mortgage market, with Furness Building Society’s...

New data has shown that millennials (25-44) are as unconfident in their ability to manage their finances as younger Gen Z...

New data has found that 89% of mortgage advisers believe first-time buyers need more education on purchasing a property and what...

According to new research by MetLife UK, 43% of prospective and current homeowners admitted to using a mortgage adviser or broker...

Advise Wise has launched a desktop application to allow advisers to access its platform directly from their desktop, with just a...

Legal & General (L&G) has announced that it will provide its digital mortgage sourcing technology to intermediary business, My Simple Mortgage. L&G...

Only a quarter (27%) of UK adults have sought financial advice ahead of ‘freedom day’ despite Covid-19 causing financial uncertainty, according...

Multiply AI, a fully automated financial adviser app, has partnered with digital mortgage broker Mojo to provide the first end-to-end digital...

Zahid Bilgrami has been appointed as group chief executive officer of Mortgage Brain. Bilgrami joins the company after 11 years as chief...

Private Finance, an independent whole of market mortgage adviser, has released its latest mortgage memo for February. We outline its key findings...

As we leave behind one of the strangest years in memory, we anticipate starting fresh in 2021. With a buoyant housing...

General Insurance (GI) provider Paymentshield is predicting a surge in the number of mortgage adviser firms appointing a GI specialist next...

Creating blogs and articles isn’t always the easiest task for mortgage professionals, particularly when you consider that client meetings, calls and...

Social media has become big business in recent years, with the number of social media users worldwide expected to hit 3.02...

Over the last ten years, the mortgage market in the UK has changed significantly. Alongside increased regulation of the industry, stricter...

Mortgages have not typically been viewed as a high-risk service when it comes to money laundering, but as the practice becomes...

Paymentshied has announced the appointment of Nasar Hussain as national account manager south to support its network partners and their members. He...

Mark Lofthouse, chief executive officer at Mortgage Brain, is due to retire in 2021 after 19 years in the company. Since joining...

Paymentshield has launched a series of webinars to help brokers develop general insurance (GI) knowledge to enable them to protect and...

Just Mortgages continues its expansion and diversity drive by appointing its first financial services director, Kerry-Ann Davies. Davies brings 16 years of...

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has partnered with Legal & General and Uinsure to launch B&C InstantQuote to its national network of...

Interest-only mortgages comprised 20% of new business introduced in Q2 2019, down from 28% is Q2 2007 but significantly higher than...

Over a third of people who purchased their mortgage direct from a lender have no protection policy in place, the latest...

The days when lenders would continue to overlook poorly prepared applications are coming to an end, specialist mortgage advisers Fluent Mortgages...

Thousands of borrowers could be missing out on a better mortgage deal by not speaking to an adviser, research from Legal...

Webline, an online quote and e-apply portal from research software developer, Synaptic, is now accessible to mortgage advisers through a new...

MortgageGym is adding four specialist lenders to its online platform for mortgage applicants with lower credit scores. These include Together and Precise...

Newbury Building Society has introduced a video call mortgage advice system following a successful pilot. The ‘home-to-branch’ Skype-style system aims to enable...

Mortgage advisers are now able to showcase their professional image to customers by adding their own branding and personalisation to The...

One in six mortgage holders have been rejected for a mortgage in the past, according to new research from Which? Mortgage...

Almost half of homeowners are making overpayments on their mortgages, according to new research from Which? Mortgage Advisers. Those aged 18-24 led...

A unique systems integration between Paymentshield and The Key has made it possible for mortgage advisers to gain instant access to...

As many as one in three UK homeowners don’t know what mortgage rate they are on, potentially costing them thousands of...

Mortgage Brain has launched this year’s series of Mortgage Vision events. Now in it’s ninth year and having celebrated a 22% increase...

The launch of retirement interest only (RIO) products by lenders provides a valuable alternative to the growing number of later life...

Mortgage advisers are embracing new technology faster than any other time following the credit crunch, according to Criteria Hub. The online deep...

Criteria Hub, the criteria search engine for networks, clubs and mortgage advisers, is providing lenders with useful product point feedback via...

Mortgage Brain has become the first UK mortgage technology company to develop a ‘Mortgage Skill’ on Amazon’s Echo devices. The feature will...

UK mortgage advisers Just Mortgages grew from 13 brokers at the start of 2017 to 81 by the end of the...

Financial advice network Openwork has extended its partnership with mortgage technology firm, Mortgage Brain, in a bid to provide its advisers...

It's only right and proper that as a mortgage adviser you spend most of your time helping your clients buy or...

The vast majority of mortgage advisers are at risk of failing to comply with the new rules and regulations set in...

Any company that sells a product or service and wants to survive and thrive needs to constantly come up with new...

Right Mortgage Company (RMC) has agreed to a new five-year contract with Mortgage Brain following an evaluation of the industry’s mortgage...

Research from Mortgage Advice Bureau Swindon has found that it is cheaper for Swindon tenants to purchase a new property than...

It's been quite the year politically. Brexit, Trump's election, the triggering of Article 50, a new French President and now another...

Almost a third of mortgage advisers believe that Britain’s exit from the EU will have a positive or very positive effect...

Tenet, a Leeds-based mortgage adviser support group, has announced a new partnership with specialist lender Vida Homeloans, the latest in a...

Daniel Bailey, an independent mortgage adviser from North Derbyshire, has bagged one of the financial industry’s most prestigious awards. Bailey, director of...

A tie-up between Furness Building Society and First Complete, which will give First Complete advisers full access to Furness’ wide range...

The UK's first bank built exclusively for mobile has extended its Digital Mortgage Range. Atom Bank has launched a two year...

The UK’s first bank built exclusively for mobile customers has extended its Digital Mortgage range, with 80% LTV and 85% LTV...

Digital mortgage broker habito has raised £5.5 million in investment funding.  The firm says it will use the money to enhance the...

The one area in which a proper affordability assessment is ignored is lending to older borrowers, according to findings from The...

Mortgage advisers are concerned about about the longer-term prospects for buy-to-let, with half now predicting a decline in business. Although advisers saw...

Lloyds Bank and Halifax are offering customers the chance to speak "face-to-face" with a mortgage adviser by video link. They can talk to...

Halifax has unveiled a new £250 cashback deal for customers looking to remortgage direct with the bank. It has also reduced product...

Accidental landlords are most at risk of being caught out by Chancellor George Osborne's tax raids and new EU mortgage legislation,...

Lloyds Bank has extended its existing £500 remortgage cashback offer to include its first-time buyer and homemover range. Customers choosing a qualifying...

One in three mortgage holders have no idea what rate of interest they are paying, new research shows. This is despite growing...

Just Mortgages has launched a specialist new homes division.  The New Homes Division will cover the whole of England and Wales, launching with...