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Citizens Advice sounds warning over guarantor loans

An increasing number of people are struggling with debts for guarantor loans and rent to...

Variable incomes causing debt problems

Research carried out by Debt Advisory Centre has revealed how the growing numbers of people whose incomes...

Payday lender in £34m customer redress action

Payday firm CFO Lending is to provide over £34 million of redress to more...

Londoners leaving home at risk of debt

New research from Weroom, the flatsharing marketplace, reveals that the annual exodus of people...

Citizens Advice: payday lenders still failing borrowers

Citizens Advice has revealed that its research shows that certain payday lenders are still failing...

Claims firm rapped over misleading tweet

A claims management firm has been warned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over...

40% fall in second charge repossessions

The number of second-charge mortgage repossessions in the second quarter of 2016 was 40, down...

Fall in arrears and possessions continues

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported that the number of mortgages in...

Financial plight of millennials revealed

35% of Britain’s 'millennials' (those aged 18-35s) say their generation has been priced out of...

CCJs at highest level for a decade

Second charge mortgage lender Equifinance says the continuing rise in the number of county...

18% say they have a ‘debt problem’

Latest figures released by Debt Advisory Centre suggest that nine million UK adults think that they have...

Debt hampering life chances

High levels of debt make people less likely to move house, apply for a...

Commercial broker gains FCA authorisation

Commercial finance broker Pegasus Funding Resources has been granted authorisation to carry out credit broking,...

Debt collection directors disqualified

A pair of directors involved in a business providing debt collection services have been disqualified...

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Bridging the Pond: How large is the US bridging finance market, and compared to the UK?

When we first got started with LendInvest in the UK, post the financial crisis, bridging finance was a much more nascent product than it...

Passing the affordability exam

As teachers and students of various ages have spent August nervously opening exam results following years of study that will determine their ability to...

Investors are changing their approach – and lenders should too

The buy-to-let market never stands still, but the pace of change in recent years has been remarkable. The days of the so-called ‘accidental landlord’,...

Leasehold fees, specialists and the need to shop around

Leasehold properties account for around 20% of all dwellings in the UK, and while that figure may change in the future with government legislation...

Tuning into later life lending conversations

There are certain conversations in our profession that can genuinely change the course of a client’s life. Later life lending sits firmly in that...

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Fleet unveils Renters’ Rights Bill guide for advisers and landlords

Fleet Mortgages has launched a new guide designed to help advisers and landlords prepare...

Allica Bank signs sponsorship deal with teenage racing driver

Allica Bank has agreed a two-year sponsorship deal with 16-year-old racing driver Daniella Sutton,...

More than half of landlords plan portfolio expansion

More than half of buy-to-let landlords intend to grow their portfolios in the coming...

Phoebus secures ISO recertification to bolster SaaS security resilience

Phoebus has renewed its ISO 27001 accreditation, achieving recertification to the updated 2022 standard...