Press releases for July 2022

01 August 2022

The Smart Manufacturing Alliance will be helping manufacturers across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough take greater control of their cashflow through a new corporate partnership with payments specialis...

01 August 2022

Great news! We have made some changes to our product portfolio For Buy To Let and Holiday Lets. Expats – exciting news! Some important things to note are: Available for First Time buyers and firs...

01 August 2022

Paradigm Mortgage Services, the mortgage services proposition, has today (1st August 2022) launched a brand new ‘Summer School of Marketing’ to support advisory businesses in getting the most out of t...

29 July 2022

As UK temperatures soared last week, conveyancing enquiry levels dropped, according to new statistics from a leading outsourced communications provider. Data from Moneypenny – which helps conveyanc...

29 July 2022

Molo Finance partners with Australian Lender ColCap Financial The strategic partnership will leverage product and tech innovation, and allow the digital mortgage lender to relaunch back into the buy-...

29 July 2022

John Phillips, national operations director at Just Mortgages said: “Although this may at first seem like a significant fall in net lending in June we should remember that there was a considerable spi...

29 July 2022

Simon Webb, managing director of capital markets and finance at LiveMore Capital, commented: “The drop in mortgage borrowing by some £2.7 billion heralds the move towards the slower time for house pur...

29 July 2022

Richard Pike, Phoebus Software sales and marketing director, says “There is no doubt that things are getting tougher and, as the slowing of the housing market is starting to show, things are only like...

29 July 2022

The gap between the average maximum and minimum loan sizes available to mortgage applicants is now at the widest it has been since Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) started reporting the data within its Aff...

29 July 2022

According to an analysis by Quick Move Now 30% of property sales collapsed, due to buyers being refused funds by mortgage between April and June 2022. Prestige Financial Solutions has recently complet...

28 July 2022

Following Gerard O’Keeffe’s decision to retire later this year as CEO of Buckinghamshire Building Society, the Board of Directors is delighted to announce the appointment of Dan Wass as CEO designate....

28 July 2022

Bristol – UK rents rose by 2.47% (£849 to £870) during Q2 2022, the largest quarterly increase during the fifteen years that The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) has recorded the country’s rental ...

28 July 2022

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS), one of the leading suppliers of valuation panel management services, has announced the appointment of Mandy Spenceley as Regional Director. In her role as Region...

28 July 2022

Allica Bank - the fintech challenger bank dedicated to serving and supporting Britain’s established small and medium businesses – has appointed Ian Flaxman to the newly created role of Head of Growth ...

28 July 2022

Sirius Property Finance has been presented with a prestigious award from mental health charity SANE in recognition of its outstanding mental health work. The award follows a recent Charity Golf Day ...

28 July 2022

Loughborough Building Society has launched a mortgage to support homebuyers using the Government’s First Homes Scheme. The scheme is designed to make it easier for first-time buyers to buy a home in ...

28 July 2022

Foundation Home Loans, the intermediary-only specialist lender, has today launched two new fee assisted Limited Edition residential products. Available as part of its F1 product range – for borrowers...

28 July 2022

(July, 2022) Commercial mortgage brokers are expecting a sharp increase in commercial property sales, with 42% expecting to see more SMEs look to acquire their premises rather than rent. Rising busi...

28 July 2022

Paradigm, the mortgage, protection and compliance services proposition, has today (28th July 2022) announced a new online webinar to cover the FCA’s Consumer Duty Final Rules and Guidance, which were ...

27 July 2022

Specialist second charge lender Evolution Money has partnered with fintech leaders Nivo to launch a new digital journey for customers and adviser introducers, utilising new technology to simplify and ...

27 July 2022

eConveyancer has launched a new panel management partnership with Wesleyan Financial Services. The agreement gives Wesleyan advisers access to eConveyancer’s panel of more than 70 audited and benchma...

27 July 2022

Roma Finance is delighted to announce the growth of the team with eight new appointments and three promotions following continuous record breaking months. Alan Collins and Saffron Abbot have both jo...

27 July 2022

Mortgage Magic has developed and launched its own electronic ID verification (E-ID) technology. The new technology is available as part of Mortgage Magic’s unified business platform for brokers, ena...

27 July 2022

Norton Broker Services has added TAB to its panel of lenders. The agreement means that brokers using Norton Broker Services now have access to a range of first and second charge residential and comm...

27 July 2022

Central Trust, the first and second charge mortgage lender, has today (27 July 2022) launched a Family Let and Let to Buy range. The family let range will be available up to 80% LTV, with the Let to ...

27 July 2022

360 Dotnet, the FinTech software supplier welcomes Stephen Cowdell to the team as Head of Intermediary Sales. Stephen has worked in the sector ever since the beginning of his professional career and w...

27 July 2022

National brokerage Just Mortgages says that competition to become a mortgage and protection adviser has never been fiercer with places on their latest academy vastly over-subscribed. The firm runs a ...

26 July 2022

J3 Advisory was instructed by AMA homes to place structural warranty insurance on its £24m Belford Road scheme in Edinburgh. The insurance will provide cover for any damage as a result of defective de...

26 July 2022

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Malone Roberts as Lending Manager for the North West within its Specialist Mortgages Lending division. Malone joins HTB after spending thre...

26 July 2022

More than half (54 per cent) of property firms are failing to carry out crucial “ghost-buster” checks on new business clients, newly released data shows. “Ghost” firms are false entities created as p...

26 July 2022

Crystal Specialist Finance, the specialist finance distributor, has today announced the appointment of a new Marketing Director. Dom Wilkinson joins the business with immediate effect and will be foc...

26 July 2022

Zephyr Homeloans, the specialist buy-to-let (BTL) mortgage provider, has appointed Brilliant Solutions, the buy-to-let mortgage club for brokers, as a packager partner. Zephyr said the change would e...

26 July 2022

Kuflink, the national bridging and development finance lender, has appointed Paul Auger as Head of Products to monitor the market and produce innovative new concepts to enhance the existing product ra...

25 July 2022

Freedom Finance has selected One Mortgage System (OMS), the seamless single-input enquiry-to-completion processing platform for brokers, to be its back-office processing support partner. The lending ...

25 July 2022

Norton Home Loans has partnered with The Money Group (TMG) network, enabling TMG brokers to access its full range of specialist mortgages. Norton Home Loans offers a range of specialist first charge ...

25 July 2022

Later life lending specialist Pure Retirement had signed a new contract with Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) further cementing their eight-year partnership. The two partners have worked closely togeth...

25 July 2022

Mansfield Building Society has launched with Open Banking platform DirectID to make it easier for mortgage applicants to provide their bank statements online. The new service allows borrowers to give...

25 July 2022

Aspen Bridging is taking its service excellence to new levels with the lender completing over 40% of deals in under 14 days in the six weeks up to July 22, 2022. During this period, in which over £2...

22 July 2022

Stonebridge, the national mortgage and insurance network, and Mortgage 1st, the Derbyshire-based mortgage advice firm, have today announced a renewed partnership with a new long-term deal. The new ag...

22 July 2022

Richard Pike, Phoebus Software sales and marketing director says, “Despite this fall in transaction volumes, a fall of 11% from May and the lowest level since November last year, this figure does not ...

22 July 2022

Mortgage and protection broker, Access Financial Services CEO Karl Wilkinson said, “The non-seasonally adjusted figures for property transactions look like they have fallen off a cliff at 55% lower th...

22 July 2022

The Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA) and Association of Short Term Mortgage Lenders (ASTL) have confirmed a framework for their ongoing education programme for the commercial propert...

21 July 2022

Simon Webb, managing director of capital markets and finance at LiveMore, commented: “This year has been a bit up and down on a monthly basis for housing transactions but on a seasonally adjusted basi...

21 July 2022

LiveMore’s lending solutions for the 50 to 90+ age group are now available through specialist mortgage packager TFC Homeloans. Brokers using TFC Homeloans can submit cases on 1APP from DIP to complet...

21 July 2022

Tuscan Capital, the short-term property finance specialist, has announced the addition of a free AVM option to its new Fast Track process, aimed at saving significant costs to borrowers whilst further...

21 July 2022

Foundation Home Loans, the intermediary-only specialist lender, has today launched a new buy-to-let limited edition product. Available as part of its F1 product range – for borrowers with an almost c...

20 July 2022

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of three new lending directors within its Development Finance division. Colin Ness, Richard Payne and Pranav Jain are the latest recruits to ...

20 July 2022

Mark Hutchings has joined Crystal Specialist Finance as Head of Strategy and Group Projects. In this newly created role Mark will expand Crystal’s proposition and reach within the Specialist lending s...

20 July 2022

A webinar poll undertaken by Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS), one of the leading suppliers of valuation panel management services, found that over two thirds of property professionals (64%) are r...

20 July 2022

Chancery Capital has announced it has joined forces with specialist short-term lender, Hope Capital. The strategic partnership will provide borrowers with easy access to tailored, innovative and flex...

20 July 2022

Paul Brett, managing director, intermediaries at Landbay, said: “Rents have been steadily rising over the past year and have hit a record growth rate of 3%. This reflects tenant demand which remains h...

20 July 2022

Landbay is extending its buy-to-let range for intermediaries and their landlord clients with the launch of its first 10-year fixed rate mortgage range. To start with Landbay is introducing four new p...

20 July 2022

Simon Webb, managing director – capital markets and finance at LiveMore, said: “As expected inflation has gone up in June to 9.4%. Until we can get some clarity on when inflation will start to stabili...

19 July 2022

UK, 19 July 2022: Tech expert Mortgage Brain has today relaunched its popular Lender Service Report, enabling mortgage advisers a single view of service levels of lenders throughout the industry. The...

19 July 2022

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has added MFS to its MBT Affordability research platform. MBT Affordability, which already features the largest panel of Residential and Buy to Let lenders of any affordab...

19 July 2022

Evolution Money, the second-charge lending specialist, has announced it is involved in the Government-sponsored four-day working week trial, with employees across its two biggest customer-facing depar...

18 July 2022

Just Mortgages has today announced the creation of a dedicated academy and broker support facility in Manchester, their first in the north of England. Advisers wishing to join the Just Mortgages Self-...

18 July 2022

LiveMore is expanding its sales and broker support to meet the growing demand for interest-only mortgages in the 50 plus age group. Margarita Genovesa has been an integral member of the sales team si...

18 July 2022

Commercial mortgage used to purchase new premises. Recognise Bank has agreed a £670,000 commercial mortgage for an experienced care home provider. The loan will enable the client, The Lewis Group, t...

18 July 2022

18 July 2022, London UK: Acre, the innovative all-in-one intermediaries platform, announces that it has added the Land Registry search facility to its broker Property Portal, allowing brokers to acces...

18 July 2022

Castle Trust Bank has completed a portfolio loan secured on 19 Buy to Let properties in London, with an aggregated value of £9.3m. The specialist Buy to Let and Bridging lender worked with broker, Sp...

18 July 2022

Specialist buy-to-let lender, Landbay, and the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business, Phoenix Group, have formed a strategic partnership to fund long-term fixed rate mortgages. With ...

15 July 2022

Mortgage Magic has launched an automated onboarding process, enabling smaller broker firms immediate and easy access to its feature-rich platform. The automated onboarding process means that broker ...

14 July 2022

- Saffron Building Society is today announcing the launch of its scorching summer campaign, ‘Summer Mortgage Deals from Saffron’ offering deals across a selection of its specialist mortgages. - Follo...

14 July 2022

Monmouthshire has become the first mutual building society to appoint VAS Panel and will utilise the valuation panel management system for selected loan security applications with immediate effect. T...

14 July 2022

Fleet Mortgages, the buy-to-let specialist lender, has today (14th July 2022) released the latest iteration of its Buy-to-Let Rental Barometer covering Q2 2022 rental yields across England and Wales. ...

14 July 2022

United Trust Bank (UTB) has chosen leading enterprise automation platform Workato to provide the software integration layer which will enable the Bank to connect and integrate a wide variety of powerf...

14 July 2022

Second charge lending totalled £143.3 million in June 2022, figures reported directly to Loans Warehouse from second charge lenders confirm. June's figures represent a 5.03% drop compared with May's,...

14 July 2022

Andrew & Sarah are a retired couple, both aged 73 who have always dreamed of buying a retirement property by the sea. Andrew used to work in the civil service and is in receipt of a pension and Sarah ...

13 July 2022

(July, 2022) UK based Saltare, the Early Payment FinTech, has appointed its second commercial manager to grow customer base with a primary focus on enrolling larger corporations with extensive and div...

13 July 2022

One Mortgage System (OMS), the seamless single-input enquiry to completion processing platform for brokers, has integrated with Click2Check’s online solution Credit Assess. This link-up will allow O...

13 July 2022

Mortgage and protection broker, Access Financial Services (Access FS), has agreed an exclusive tie with Vitality in order to strengthen its training of brokers who are inexperienced in the protection ...

13 July 2022

Luxury asset lender, Suros Capital, has appointed Helena Khizam as Managing Director with a brief to build on the company’s progress to date and expand the business among intermediaries and businesses...

13 July 2022

The Robot Exchange, the Nottingham-based robotic process automation (RPA) specialist, has announced the appointment of award-winning tech entrepreneur and pioneer, Elizabeth Gooch MBE, as its new chai...

13 July 2022

The Conveyancing Association (CA) - the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry – has today (13th July 2022) announced a number of results from its 2022 Lender Survey, used to identify where ...

13 July 2022

Pepper Money has completed a series of events and discussions to mark its Diversity & Inclusion Awareness Month. The events, which were designed to explore, share and celebrate the many similaritie...

13 July 2022

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has integrated its MBT Affordability research platform with Generation Home; the new affordability focused lender that helps buyers enhance their borrowing using friends an...

13 July 2022

Stonebridge, the national mortgage and insurance network, has launched new functionality in its wholly-owned trading platform, Revolution, that will help advisers ensure clients are putting in place ...

12 July 2022

Paradigm Mortgage Services, the mortgage services proposition, has today (12th July 2022) announced the addition of Octopus Real Estate to its lending panel. From today, Paradigm member firms will ha...

12 July 2022

New platform automates customer onboarding based on risk parameters Recognise Bank, the fintech powered business lender and savings provider, has partnered with TruNarrative, a LexisNexis® Risk Solu...

12 July 2022

LiveMore is increasing its procuration fee for intermediaries on its long-term fixed rate mortgage range for the 50-90+ age group. The new Enhanced Procuration Fee is only available on LiveMore’s 20-...

12 July 2022

MorganAsh, the specialist data supplier allowing firms in the financial services sector to manage consumer vulnerability and meet regulatory requirements, today announced a new partnership with Infiin...

11 July 2022

Mansfield Building Society has joined The Money Group’s (TMG) lender panel. The new agreement will provide access for TMG’s directly authorised advisers to The Mansfield’s impressive range of residen...

08 July 2022

Members of the training academies of Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS), suppliers of valuation panel management services, and SDL Surveying, the national residential surveying and valuations firm, ...

07 July 2022

Comment from Simon Webb, managing director of capital markets and finance at LiveMore: “Since the onset of the cost-of-living crisis six months ago and the government’s faltering response, we’ve been...

06 July 2022

(July, 2022) Allica Bank, the SME-focused challenger bank, has now provided established SMEs with over £100 million in asset finance funding since its launch in 2021. The bank has worked closely wit...

06 July 2022

Paradigm Mortgage Services, the mortgage services proposition, has today (6th July 2022) announced the appointment of Stafford Railway Building Society to its lender panel. From today, Paradigm membe...

05 July 2022

Alternative Bridging Corporation has completed a development loan for a long-standing client within two weeks. Alan Perry, a well-known and respected property developer in Essex was due to purchase ...

05 July 2022

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has today announced that it is relaunching HTB Syscap, the lender of short-term loans to professional firms and SMEs, following its acquisition of Wesleyan Bank in February ...

05 July 2022

Specialist lending brand Central Trust has enhanced its front-end portal and developed its own origination platform in order to provide a seamless journey for its broker customers. The lender has rec...

05 July 2022

Property investor platform, Lendlord has launched an integration with property portal, Property.xyz. The integration enhances Lendlord’s property sourcing capabilities, adding tens of thousands of U...

05 July 2022

We are delighted to announce that The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has now joined the trade body AMI – the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries. Appointed Representatives of The Right Mortga...

05 July 2022

Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) has introduced mental health first aiders into its workplace to help anyone who needs support. Five employees are now qualified mental health first aiders who have form...

05 July 2022

The Brightstar Group has launched a scheme to encourage young women into a career in the financial services industry, helping the business to drive its ongoing commitment to the Women in Finance Chart...

04 July 2022

Castle Trust Bank has revamped its TermTen Buy to Let product to offer brokers and their clients more certainty in a rising rate environment. The revamped TermTen product features a booking fee of 0....

04 July 2022

Second charge lending totalled £150.9 million in May 2022, figures reported directly to Loans Warehouse from second charge lenders confirm. May's figures represent a 7.47% growth month on month and t...

04 July 2022

Roma has extended the product ranges available on RomaFLOW and introduced electronic signatures to the process Roma Finance has enhanced the RomaFLOW process following its unwavering success, resulti...

04 July 2022

Kuflink, the Kent based bridging lender, has announced the appointment of Ranjit Narwal as Head of Origination to build up Kuflink’s presence in the intermediary focussed short term lending market. He...

01 July 2022

Comment from Leon Diamond, CEO, LiveMore on the FCA’s letter to CEOs of lifetime mortgage providers: We welcome the FCA paper on Supervisory Strategy for Lifetime Mortgage Providers. The well-public...

01 July 2022

Richard Pike, Phoebus Software sales and marketing director, says “Mortgage activity appears to be bucking expectations following the recent interest rate rises. It would be easy to think that all the...

01 July 2022

Simon Webb, managing director of capital markets and finance at LiveMore, commented: “May saw a healthy rise in mortgage lending from the dip in April’s figures increasing by 76% while gross lending w...

01 July 2022

John Phillips, national operations director at Just Mortgages, says “Borrowing and lending levels continue to increase above what anyone predicted they would, almost doubling again in May. Doom mercha...