Features

Commercial finance, tax hikes and corporate structures

There has been much debate in the industry around whether or not setting up...

MCD – a new dawn for secured loan lenders

Equifinance has just funded our first fully MCD-compliant loan. To get to this point...

Using a bridge for an HMO investment

HMO developments can yield some fantastic returns upon investment and it is little surprise...

We’re fast approaching ‘squeaky bum time’

When it comes to housing transactions, each will have their own specific deadline when...

2016: Challenges, changes and opportunities for brokers

To quote a heavily used cliché from Alexander Graham Bell: “When one door closes,...

What will Osborne do on 16 March?

If it’s not in your diaries already then 16 March is certainly a day to...

Restaurants aren’t risky by nature

Nine out of 10 restaurants fail in their first year of trading. It’s a statistic...

Are lenders committed to the intermediary market?

It’s not often you get four of the biggest hitters from the lending industry...

Where are household insurance premiums heading?

The average cost of home insurance fell by 3% last year, according to the...

A better tomorrow

2015 was a positive year for the mortgage market in many respects and was...

Don’t neglect the conveyancing

There is a long tradition in politics, business and the economy to look at...

Why the long face?

One can’t help but come back to the market after the new year break...

Conveyancers are coming under severe pressure

It might be a push to suggest that January has so far been ‘the...

Beware the best bridging rates

At First 4 Bridging we speak to brokers every day of the week, and...
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COMMENT

Comment

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

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