Debt

One in four SMEs suffer bad debt of over £10k

Over a quarter of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK, suffer...

Repossession firm wound up

A Stourbridge-based repossession and eviction advice firm has been wound up following an investigation...

Fall predicted in buy-to-let mortgage arrears

Keystone Property Finance has stated that buy-to-let mortgage arrears are set to fall below...

Lloyds successful with PPI ad complaints

Lloyds Banking Group has seen complaints it made against two claims management companies upheld...

Debt management directors disqualified

A husband and wife team from Cheshire have been disqualified for a total of...

Average Brit juggling £5k worth of debt

A new survey from the AA has revealed that  5.4 million people (11%) have transferred...

Industry should improve defaulter rehabilitation

The consumer debt industry could do more to recognise positive steps taken by debt...

Decade of credit card debt for many Brits

MoneySuperMarket has reported that 37% of Britons have been saddled with credit card debt for up to...

6.8m adults have never checked their credit score

Nearly seven million UK adults in the near prime sector have never checked their credit...

Reduction in serious rent arrears

The improving employment market has led to fewer tenants falling into serious rent arrears,...

North/South repossession gap markedly closing

There has been almost halving in the divide between home repossessions in the North...

Slight shift in reasons for remortgaging

There was a fall of four percentage points in the number of people opting...

CML: repossession rate “lowest on record”

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that the number of repossessions in...

UK steel threat could worsen repossession figures

HML has stated that repossession rates for UK homes will remain low so far...
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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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More than half of landlords plan portfolio expansion

More than half of buy-to-let landlords intend to grow their portfolios in the coming...
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Phoebus has renewed its ISO 27001 accreditation, achieving recertification to the updated 2022 standard...
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Homes priced too high take twice as long to sell

Homes listed above market value take more than twice as long to sell, Zoopla...
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Computershare Loan Services and The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) have made their fifth...

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