Commercial

Ultimate Finance expands North East presence

Ultimate Finance has appointed David Paget to cover the North East. Paget (pictured), who...

SME insurance broker fined by regulator

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Moorhouse Group £159,300 for failures in relation...

NACFB and Hitachi unveil apprenticeship programme

The NACFB has announced its first ever apprenticeship scheme in partnership with Hitachi Capital...

Significant growth for Ultimate Finance Group

Ultimate Finance Group significantly increased its loan book and client base in its last...

First Merchant joins ASTL

First Merchant has joined the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) as an associate...

Keystone unveils online illustration for Solutions range

Keystone has introduced a service whereby brokers wanting to give their landlord clients a...

Crystal Mortgages rebrands to highlight core markets

Midlands-based Crystal Mortgages has rebranded to Crystal Specialist Finance. It is highlighting five distinctive...

Two-thirds of all BTL transactions are now remortgages

In the first quarter of 2015, 66% of mortgages against standard or ‘vanilla’ buy-to-let...

Risk putting people off peer-to-peer

42% of homeowners surveyed who have not invested on a peer-to-peer platform had chosen...

17th consecutive month of growth in asset finance

There was a 12% growth in asset finance (primarily leasing and hire purchase) new...

Pepper hires CRE servicing head

Pepper UK has appointed Alison Higgs as head of commercial loan servicing. She will support...

Shawbrook launches new online broker hub

Shawbrook Bank has launched a new exclusive 'Broker Hub' for its broker partners. The...

Shawbrook IPO values business at £725m

Shawbrook Bank has announced the successful pricing of its initial public offering (IPO) of...

Shawbrook improves heavy refurb STL offering

Shawbrook Bank’s commercial mortgages division has made changes to its short-term loan (STL) product range. It is...
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COMMENT

Homebuying

Removing friction from the homebuying journey

One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...

Build, baby, build? Well we will need to fund more than the usual suspects

There was a noticeable sense of optimism at UKREiiF this year. That may sound surprising given the economic headwinds of recent years, but the...

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market riding high

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market has created real value for customers – there’s no excuse to ignore it. When a UK borrower reaches 55,...

How small and medium-sized lenders can fix the origination headache

We are constantly told that to fix the mortgage journey, we need to rip everything out and start again. That unless a lender replaces its...

A new PM brings a new opportunity to rethink housing policy

Politics, as it seems to do in recent times, has moved at remarkable speed over the last couple of weeks. In what feels like...

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MT Finance latest firm to offer World Cup time off

As mortgage firms gear up for England’s 1am World Cup clash against Mexico on...
News

Broker optimism grows as sub-4% rates edge closer

A series of mortgage rate cuts from lenders this week has sparked optimism among...
Buy-to-let

Renters face higher costs amid strong demand

Two in three (63%) recent movers ended up paying more rent than planned, as...
Buy-to-let

ModaMortgages cuts rates across limited-edition BTL range

ModaMortgages has announced a reprice of its limited-edition buy-to-let range, with rate reductions across...

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