Commercial

Record results for Crystal Mortgages

Crystal Mortgages issued terms on £664.3m worth of business in 2014, a 38.7% increase...

Eurozone crisis tops brokers’ fears

Brokers see a Eurozone recession and a change of government in Westminster as the...

New role for Neil Molyneux at Masthaven Finance

Neil Molyneux has been appointed to the newly created role of head of sales...

LendInvest passes major milestone

LendInvest has now lent more than £200 million to British businesses and property entrepreneurs. LendInvest...

Omni Capital funds 19-unit Chiswick development

Omni Capital has teamed up with developer Prime City Developments to fund the acquisition...

Brightstar hires its first BDM

Brightstar has appointed Chris Bennett as its first business development manager (BDM). He will report...

RBS partners with alternative finance providers

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is to formally refer customers to Funding Circle and...

Aldermore passes asset finance milestone

Aldermore has revealed that its asset finance portfolio has exceeded £1 billion. The bank’s...

60% of brokers expect H2 bank rate rise

A survey, carried out by United Trust Bank with brokers working in the...

New lending manager for Shawbrook

Paul O'Hara has been appointed by Shawbrook Bank as a lending manager in its...

Start Up Loan scheme reaches lending milestone

The 25,000th Start Up Loan scheme deal has been approved, taking the total amount...

Non-standard yields rising faster than for vanilla BTLs

Average yields on non-standard properties have increased even further above more 'simple' buy-to-let investments,...

Ezbob introduces scratch card scheme

Ezbob is offering a scratch card for each case submitted before 15 February. Introducers will...

Bibby appoints head of sales for the north east

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Mike Day as its head of sales for...
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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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News

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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