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Today, 10.36 am Hi all,  Just putting the feelers out for anyone that's got any feedback on the above network. I'm currently weighing up AR options and whilst I was initially sold on TRM, I had a very disappointing experience with one of their account managers and it totally put me off wanting to work with t...
Today, 9.58 am When I send my bank statement over to my accountant, I change the fields... If it says Amazon for example, I might change it Laptop - so he knows what it is.  Where it says Fee from Mark Smith I change it to "income" - GDPR and all that.    So I could change it to Income...
Today, 9.23 am The issue is - you know what a Mortgage is.... or a Buy to Let Mortgage is.... and AI might be OK to work that out.   But what about a Consumer/Regulated BTL or a non- regulated Fee?   i.e. how can you be happy you recorded the relevant figures for the RMAR (just did mine last week!) a...
Today, 8.30 am Update from 20th March Did those first 2 cases; dead straight forward like for like Remos no debts and don't need to complete until 1st July, one case not too bad, very slow but knew that would be the case. The other one without boring everybody to death I thought about slitting my wrist with a...
Today, 8.15 am We had a small shop front on a busy road in an affluent area for around 10 years. It was good and helped establish us in the area. Walk ins occasionally so you had to be prepared (which I often wasn't) to drop everything to talk to them. It was an old building so whilst it was cheap with zero b...
Today, 7.22 am I post predominantly on TikTok so majority of my business is first time buyers. I don't do any fancy editing or anything like that, and all I do is 'talking head' videos giving out basic info on mortgages.The platform is quite saturated with brokers now, but if you're willing to put ...
Today, 7.22 am Hi, I have client that has been loaded quite heavily by LV due to the milage he does per year as a salesman. Are there ant insurers that are a bit more lenient pls?
Yesterday, 4.32 pm would you mind sharing what platform and style of content gets your best results?
Yesterday, 4.00 pm Has anyone tried using AI by uploading a bank statement (CSV)?    I do what I can and then pay a bloke to do my returns. But I am just wondering if I can upload  a statement and let it tell me what to put where? 
Saturday, 12.09 pm My experiences are similar; the worst being where one applicant worked for a chidrens charity and also a private individual but registered through the council where the council paid part of her salary through their benefits system - God!! The final stunning comment was regarding her July payslip wh...

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Today, 9.11 am Specialist commercial lender InterBay, part of OSB Group, has completed a £3.8m commercial finance facility in Central London to support the development of two new residential properties. The asset, a four storey commercial building with three tenants, was originally held within a family trus...
Today, 9.10 am Buy-to-let lender, Landbay, has today (20th April 2026) announced a series of rate reductions across selected products within its Premier remortgage range. Premier is a range of standard products for landlords with up to 15 mortgaged properties, available to both individual and limited company land...
Today, 9.08 am Aspen has expanded its award-winning Bridge To Let offering with the launch of a 75% LTV Five-Year Semi-Commercial product. Bridging rates start at a fixed 0.79% pm for a period of up to 24 months followed by 6.94% pa over one, two or three years for the serviced period. The rates and leverage are b...
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Today, 9.02 am Twenty7tec has appointed Nick Wakeham as Head of Data Sales, strengthening its focus on delivering enhanced market intelligence and data-driven solutions to lenders and providers. Nick joins the business with responsibility for leading the commercial strategy for Twenty7tec’s data and analyti...
Today, 8.59 am Darlington Building Society delivered record gross mortgage lending of £234m in 2025, a 58% increase on the previous year, as the mutual reported a strong set of results underpinned by steady, service-led growth. These results reflect a clear strategy focused on sustainable growth, specialist...
Today, 8.54 am SAMPAN’s second event will take place at Paragon’s Solihull office on 7 May. The aim is to help improve South Asian representation within the mortgage sector and support those already building their careers in the industry. The group was founded by Gurpreet Chahal, regional sales manage...
Today, 8.53 am One Mortgage System (OMS) has partnered with The Earl Shilton Building Society to deliver its full Originations platform, supporting the Society’s ambitions to transform its digital infrastructure. Adopting OMS Originations demonstrates the Society’s position as a modern mutual, combinin...
Today, 8.50 am Specialist finance lender, Masthaven Finance, has today announced the launch of Originate, a new mortgage origination platform. Developed in strategic partnership with Optalitix, the platform is designed to streamline the submission and decision process for brokers operating in the specialist mortg...

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