Platform have made product transfers smoother than ever and their Online Product Transfer application feature is designed to save time and effort for you. To help you make the most of the service, they’ve been gathering feedback from you. The following are some hints and tips to ensure they process your application for your [...]

Has your trivia knowledge increased during lockdown? Or are you just a fiend for facts? Put your brain to the test with Kent Reliance for Intermediaries’ new weekly quiz! With prizes for up for grabs each week and just five questions to answer, you could be in with a shot at winning. Keep an [...]

With the understandable temporary move away from face to face client engagement due to Covid-19 , we appreciate that receiving original documents and wet signatures from your clients is a significant challenge at present.  Therefore, during this difficult period, to simplify and speed up the application process we are introducing a new attestation form [...]

Hello In response to changing times, we recently launched a new range of limited edition fees-free remortgages. Based on your feedback we've increased the maximum loan amount from £250,000 to £350,000, making them more accessible. Available on first charge residential two and five-year fixed remortgages, give your customers the option to remortgage without having to [...]

We're making some changes to our standard mortgage products with effect from Thursday 14th May 2020. Check out the changes below. Launching: EXCLUSIVELY FOR TEACHERS 2 Year Fixed Rate 3.94% 95% LTV For home purchase and remortgage applications (Issue 477) 2 Year Fixed Rate 3.69% 90% LTV For home purchase and remortgage applications [...]

We have seen a lot of progress over the past few weeks within the market and indeed here at Kensington. We launched our ‘Kensington Property Valuation’ solution and brought out our new 75% LTV product range last week. We wanted to make sure you were aware and had access to the update and FAQ’s [...]

The current lockdown is throwing up many new challenges and we are delighted to now launch our new range of remortgage products (up to 70% LTV) which will be available using desktop AVM valuations. For those applications that fall outside of AVM criteria, we will manually underwrite ready for prompt offers when we are [...]

Our existing customers can apply for an online rate switch during a 3 month payment holiday period. If your customer requires an online rate switch, you can do this by logging into the online rate switching portal. You will be able to switch their rate there and then and the portal will take you [...]

Due to the current restrictions in place across the UK, and in order to protect our employees, customers and tenants, we’ve introduced desktop valuations for properties that are either single self-contained units or have up to four tenants. To ensure the valuation is accurate and to prevent any potential delays, the application will need [...]

What’s Happening The impact of coronavirus has resulted in our New Build 6 month offer extension process being effected. As part of the standard process the original Valuer is contacted to confirm that there has been no variation to the valuation provided at the time of application. Due to Valuers being furloughed this confirmation [...]