Press releases for April 2019

23 April 2019

AIR Group, the collective of companies covering a range of retirement and later life services, has today (23rd April 2019) announced that its second annual National Later Life Adviser Conference, in a...

23 April 2019

SortRefer, part of the Sort Group, the online conveyancing platform, is celebrating its 10 year anniversary on the 23rd April. Ten years ago, Kevin Tunnicliffe and his three fellow founders were mort...

23 April 2019

United Trust Bank has appointed Owen Bentley as Business Development Manager for its Mortgages & Bridging team. The appointment continues the growth of the sales team and develops the Bank’s support t...

23 April 2019

Specialist Hub welcomes new staff members Ciaran Phipps and Sakina Yusufali and there’s a change of role for Callum Sutton. The company has recently appointed Ciaran Phipps as Business Development Ex...

18 April 2019

Stonebridge Group, the mortgage and insurance network, has today (18th April 2019) announced a strong set of quarterly figures for the first three months of the year showing growth in both application...

18 April 2019

Leek United Building Society has appointed Rob Broadbent as its new Finance Director. Rob has over 15 years’ experience in financial services, including positions at Board and Executive level. His m...

18 April 2019

Paul Shearman, Openwork’s proposition director - mortgages, protection and general insurance, has declared that Just Mortgages is now Openwork’s number one broker in the network across all three indic...

17 April 2019

Tenet is the first adviser support group to partner with the new referral tracking platform, TrackerHub. With a dashboard of real time data for advisers and introducers, TrackerHub allows both partie...

17 April 2019

Responding to the recent Mortgage Market Review, Dudley Building Society, which five years ago took the unique decision, for an established lender, to market its mortgage product range only through mo...

17 April 2019

Principality Building Society has become the latest lender to join the Paradigm Mortgage Services lender panel. From today (17th April 2019) Paradigm member firms will be able to access the Principal...

17 April 2019

Multi benefit policies now top 50% of protection sales HLP advisers broadening protection advice Mortgage and protection network, HL Partnership, has reported a marked increase in the take up of mult...

16 April 2019

JEANETTE Pickup is re-acclimatising to work back at Leek United after the challenge of a lifetime on the world’s highest mountain… Customer Assistant Jeanette has just returned from a gruelling but r...

16 April 2019

United Trust Bank has launched its 2019 ‘Live and Learn’ Broker promotion. Throughout the year, UTB’s registered brokers will be able to earn entries into an exclusive Grand Prize Draw to win a once ...

15 April 2019

Fleet Mortgages, the buy-to-let specialist lender, has today (15th April 2019) announced a new business development team for the South West & South Wales region. From today, Josh Parker is the new Bu...

15 April 2019

Fluent Money Group, whose Fluent Money subsidiary is the UK’s largest second charge broker/packager, believes that while the FLA’s latest second charge lending figures showing a 24% increase for Febru...

15 April 2019

The specialist lender enhances flexibility to borrowers with an updated PG policy Following the announcement earlier in the year of their new ‘Customer Appetite Statement’ – a pre-agreed loan exposur...

15 April 2019

LTV Tracker reveals increase in deposit requirements for first-time buyers resulting in increased mortgage costs Average rates continue to drop for both 75% and 95% LTV borrowers; average first-tim...

15 April 2019

Keystone Property Finance appointed mortgage and property PR specialist Instinctif Partners. Keystone works closely with brokers helping simplify complex buy to let mortgage cases. The intermediary-o...

14 April 2019

Last week The Right PMI and Healthcare held one of its specialist workshops aimed at supporting their advisers in the Private Medical Insurance sector. The fully booked workshop, held in Birmingham, ...

11 April 2019

Spicerhaart Corporate Sales achieved 104.29% of market value on repossessed properties in March 2019 The amount of money being achieved for a repossessed home by Spicerhaart Corporate Sales is at its...

11 April 2019

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) Leeds can announce their seminar and panel programme for the event on Wednesday 1st May at the Royal Armouries. CPD accredited seminars will feature a building societies ...

10 April 2019

Newcastle Intermediaries announces that it’s extending its New Build offer validity period from 6 months to 9 months. It’s also refreshing its Help to Buy product range available for new purchase and ...

10 April 2019

LEEK United staff have launched a drive to help improve the quality of outdoor life for adults with learning difficulties in Shropshire… The Society’s Market Drayton team have chosen Mencap (Market D...

10 April 2019

A combination of growing new business and increasing staff levels has seen specialist lending distributor, Fluent Money, taking another 1400 sq. feet in their head office building in Horwich, near Bol...

10 April 2019

UK broker-facing PMI benefit comparison portal, Insurance Resource, has recently undergone important developments to improve the quality and accuracy of information that it provides to brokers. Once ...

09 April 2019

Paradigm Mortgage Services, the mortgage services proposition, has today (8th April 2019) added the Newbury Building Society to its lender panel. From today, Paradigm member firms will have access to...

09 April 2019

Uinsure, the multi-award-winning General Insurance (GI) Technology provider, has today announced the launch of a graduate academy – following on from signing the Women in Finance Charter. Uinsure’s g...

09 April 2019

Fleet Mortgages, the buy-to-let specialist lender, has today (9th April 2019) announced its return to the mortgage market with a full product range including a ‘Limited Edition’ product offering and a...

09 April 2019

UK, APRIL 9, 2019: Mortgage Brain’s criteria based sourcing solution, Criteria Hub, has been enhanced to offer advisers more criteria choice and a unique way of highlighting the importance of their cl...

08 April 2019

Customers are being urged to deposit ‘nest eggs’ of a different kind with Leek United Building Society – to help a Derbyshire hospice… The Society’s Derby Branch team have appealed for chocolate dona...

08 April 2019

Leek United is urging customers to ‘shell out’ this Easter to help disadvantaged youngsters across North Staffordshire and Cheshire. The Society’s Cheadle and Newcastle Branch teams need chocolate do...

08 April 2019

Connect for Intermediaries has appointed HSBC to its mainstream residential panel for its network. HSBC approved the appointment last week and it goes live immediately. HSBC UK for Intermediaries wil...

08 April 2019

Essex based mortgage broker, CLS Money, which recently revealed a 112% increase in new business in the last financial year, has made a new appointment to oversee its growing advice team. Alec McCubbi...

04 April 2019

Mansfield Building Society has today launched two new fixed-rate Shared Ownership products which offer borrowers the opportunity to own a share of the property and pay rent on the remaining portion. ...

04 April 2019

In the week that the Equity Release Council’s Spring 2019 Market Report announced a seventh consecutive annual increase for the sector, the Knowledge Bank criteria activity tracker highlights a shift ...

04 April 2019

Aspen Bridging has given further insight into its service excellence systems through a recently completed five-day refurbishment bridge, whereby each element of the process is logged to the minute*. ...

03 April 2019

A flexible new way to borrow in later life Innovative OFFSET RIO mortgage - Later life borrowers can release additional equity and only incur interest on the amount they borrow Lower interest ra...

03 April 2019

Roma Finance, the Manchester-based bridging and development finance lender, has secured institutional funding for an innovative medium term mortgage product that customers can use to exit Roma’s bridg...

02 April 2019

Connect for Intermediaries has scheduled seven extra training academies this year after the success and demand for their first event held in the second week of March. Connect was stunned by the amount...

02 April 2019

BEP Systems, the financial services software house, has developed a customer self-service portal for Link Asset Services’ borrowers, based on its customisable Apprivo2 platform. The new portal will m...

01 April 2019

Leek United has appointed Dan Berrisford as Business Development Manager as the Society experiences a growing broker demand for their extensive mortgage products. With over 12 years’ experience in th...

01 April 2019

Purchasing or remortgaging a buy to let mortgage offers a myriad of choice, understanding some key aspects of lender criteria can help keep you on the right track. Andrew Turner, chief executive at s...

01 April 2019

Assurant Intermediary, the broker focussed GI protection specialist, has refreshed its proposition with an updated online instant quote system and a facility to refer clients to Assurant to maximise G...

01 April 2019

Leading GI Provider Source Insurance has gone one step further in the tech insurance space race to make the processing of GI quicker than ever before. Launching today (1st April), telepathic insuranc...

01 April 2019

Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced its 95% LTV range by up to 0.27% creating a very competitive range to further support first time buyers. A two year fixed of 3.12% (APRC 5.2%), a 0.18% reduction...