We're increasing our procuration fees! We're always looking for ways to help support our intermediary partners and we understand that placing specialist cases can sometimes take a little more time. That's why we've decided to increase our proc fees by 0.10% from the 17 February 2022. Proc fee rates will increase to 0.50%* for residential [...]

VitalityLife Clients need actual value - not 'added value' To really deliver value, protection should offer more than just additional services near – or at the point of – claim, writes Vitality’s Nick Telfer. The evolution of protection policies has seen growth of – what the industry likes to call – ‘added-value services’. Although, I [...]

You can now get an accurate loan size for your client in a few easy steps. Use the calculator to test out different scenarios, without signing in to the Gen H Pro dashboard. Brokers that have tried and tested the calculator so far have found it quick, easy-to-use, informative and flexible. Check it out [...]

2021 was an extremely busy year for the industry and for Foundation Home Loans. It saw a host of new challenges emerge for borrowers and opportunities present themselves across the intermediary market. As a result, we, like many other lenders have broadened our criteria to create something of a new landscape for intermediaries as [...]

In January, LendInvest's bridging portal helped drive record applications. Sales Director Leanne Smith looks at how building the portal around broker feedback made the service popular. Find out more here.

British Friendly enhances its Income Protection proposition with new and improved value-added services… Healthcare services are stretched, so British Friendly has introduced Square Health’s Clinic in a Pocket app to help your clients and their families get faster access to health and wellbeing support every day at no extra cost. Clinic in a Pocket includes [...]

Effective 17th February we are making the following changes to our New and Existing customer product ranges: New Business Rate Changes Purchase: Rate increase of 10bps on selected 2 and 5 year deals Remortgage: Rate increase of 10bps on selected 2 and 5 year deals First Time Buyers: Rate increase of 10bps on selected [...]

Working with you... Live Chat with us about existing applications Great news!   You and your administrators can now Live Chat with us about your existing applications and new business enquiries. Just enter your case reference number, complete security checks via Live Chat and our chat agents will be happy to help. [...]

Protection Update 18th February 2022 https://youtu.be/m7y_3UORcvs Joint Life Policies & Unmarried Couples – Use a Trust? Hello and welcome to this week’s protection update. Now on Wednesday this week, we looked at the subject of Trust on our “Writing Protection Policies into Trust” webinar. Did you attend?  I know quite a [...]

As you may have already heard from one of our team, all our fixed rates – except the 5-year options for HMOs and MUFBs – will increase on Monday 21st February. View our current buy to let deals To secure the current rates, your brokers need to have submitted a full mortgage application by [...]