We're excited to invite you to a free webinar where Hannah Oades, Corporate Account Manager at United Trust Bank will be discussing the notable uptick in the demand for specialist mortgages and how the flexibility of specialist lenders can provide applicants who don’t meet the criteria of high street lenders a solution to achieving their… Read More »Specialist Lending Deep Dive with United Trust Bank

Join our virtual roundtable with a range of lenders specialising in Buy-to-let lending. They will be discussing the current state of the BTL market, where they think it’s heading and what opportunities currently exist. Our guest lenders are: Andy Virgo - Director of Buy-to-Let, LendInvest Martin Yates - Senior Business Development Manager, & Jack Whiting,… Read More »Buy-to-Let Roundtables

Join us for our next LIVE Criteria Clinic at 10am on 25th July where we will be answering your questions on criteria relating to Heavy Adverse and helping you place those cases. This Clinic will be hosted by our CEO & Founder, Nicola Firth. Joining us to answer your questions and give you some valuable… Read More »Knowledge Bank Criteria Clinic – Heavy Adverse

Will the upcoming changes to ‘stress testing’ affect the market for First Time Buyer affordability or are New Build schemes still the best way forward? Will there be a shift in buying behaviour? This panel discussion will shine a spotlight on affordability for First Time Buyers’, with guests from across the industry sharing their insight… Read More »First Time Buyer Affordability in the New Build Space

Join LendInvest Sales Director, Leanne Ardron as she explores the current challenging marketplace for Buy-to-Let landlords and looks at how bridging finance can support them to secure higher yields and future-proof their portfolios against upcoming regulatory changes.   Leanne will also look at the market more widely to see how bridging finance continues to be… Read More »Using bridging finance to future proof your clients and Buy-to-Let portfolios

Over the summer holidays, we'll be hosting a variety of CPD webinars to expand your protection knowledge and to help you deliver the best protection conversations. CPD Learning Objective: To understand the purpose of Income Protection and how it can assist you with Protection conversation with clients. Agenda: Definition of Income Protection Purpose % versus… Read More »What is Income Protection?

How are New Build regulation changes impacting the BTL market and how are landlords coping with the uplift in requirements? What trends are we beginning to see emerge at the midway point of 2022, and will they change before the end of the year? Join us for a panel discussion with experts from across the… Read More »New Build Vs Buy-to-Let Panel

Join us again on Monday for the week's round-up of criteria news and hear from our esteemed panel of industry experts giving their thought on what’s making the headlines in our industry and discussing the hot topics. Joining us next week are: Karen Rodrigues, Director of Sales - eConveyancer , Jamie Pritchard, Sales Director -… Read More »Lenders Live – 1st August 11.00am

The newly proposed Consumer Duty (CD) is a topic on everyone's agenda at the moment. With an increased focus on the end consumer and a key consideration being how firms treat their most vulnerable customers, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has clearly laid out its expectation in not one, but two consultation papers on this… Read More »Breaking down the new Consumer Duty

Over the summer holidays, we'll be hosting a variety of CPD webinars to expand your protection knowledge and to help you deliver the best protection conversations. CPD Learning Objective: To understand the purpose of Income Protection and how it can assist you with Protection conversation with clients. Agenda as follows: Why Family Income Benefit What… Read More »Family Income Benefit Overview

Positive Lending’s Head of Sales, David Coleman explores the current hurdles for clients wanting to capital raise and how second charge mortgages are fast becoming the go to option for clients, where traditional mortgage borrowing isn’t possible or doesn’t provide the best outcome.   REGISTER

Would you like to find out how Foundation can support your business? This session is ideal for any intermediaries who want to grow their knowledge of specialist residential mortgages for clients who don't meet mainstream criteria, and specialist buy-to-let cases such as limited company, HMO, and portfolio lending.   Reasons to use Foundation for your… Read More »Lender Spotlight – Foundation Home Loans

Over the summer holidays, we'll be hosting a variety of CPD webinars to expand your protection knowledge and to help you deliver the best protection conversations. CPD Learning Objective: To understand how to successfully have Protection conversations with Re-Mortgage Clients and how SolutionBuilder can support this journey. Agenda as follows: Case Study IDD & Risk… Read More »The Protection Conversation – Re-Mortgage Clients

Over the summer holidays, we'll be hosting a variety of CPD webinars to expand your protection knowledge and to help you deliver the best protection conversations. CPD Learning Objective: To understand the different purposes of Critical Illness Versus Income Protection. Agenda as follows: Definition of Critical Illness & Income Protection The Different Purposes of each… Read More »Critical Illness vs. Income Protection

Join the discussion tomorrow at 2pm, Wednesday 3rd August The later-life mortgage market is growing, and many advisers want to know how they can get started. From getting to know the products available to understanding the challenges and opportunities faced by clients reaching retirement. In this webinar, we’ll discuss;   • The journey to getting… Read More »Getting Started with Later Life Mortgages

The Mortgage Climate Action Group, launched in April 2022, acts as a source of support for intermediaries, helping them to understand and address green issues when dealing with mortgage applications, ensuring that advisers’ interests are represented among lenders, regulators, trade bodies and government institutions.   This cross industry working party invites you to join its… Read More »Mortgage Climate Action Group Event

The most valuable asset to any business is its people, as without them a company’s survival can be at serious risk. In this webinar we'll discuss the protection needs of UK small to medium enterprises, and show how a range of Business Protection products, which are easy to recommend, can offer quality support when it’s… Read More »Business Protection – Choosing the right cover for a Key person

Contract workers can come in lots of forms, all of which carry their own criteria which can be dramatically different from one to the next! Our next Criteria Clinic will be discussing Contractors – from Fixed Term, Short Term, Long Term, IT and even Subcontractors! Join us for our next LIVE Criteria Clinic at 10am… Read More »Knowledge Bank: Criteria Clinic Contractors

In this webinar, West One will examine the state of the market for buy-to-let clients in 2022. They will be identifying current challenges, including the cost-of-living crisis and EPC regulation changes while also looking at opportunities for landlords to maximise their rental income with HMOs, MUFBs, and Holiday Lets. REGISTER

Join us at 12:30 pm on Wednesday 17th August when Knowledge Bank and Buckinghamshire Building Society will be coming together to take an in-depth look at Buckinghamshire’s product range and discussing current market trends. With their common sense lending approach and manual underwriting process, Buckinghamshire turns complex cases into straightforward completions. Claire Askham, Head of… Read More »Lender Spotlight with Buckinghamshire Building Society – Knowledge Bank