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Norton Folgate acquired by Amicus

Short-term lender Amicus Finance Plc, which recently rebranded from Capital Bridging Finance Ltd, has announced...

Nemo Personal Finance refreshes secured loan offering

Secured lender Nemo Personal Finance has launched new rates. The new rates on loans from...

Shawbrook Bank to host specialist lending sessions at FSE

Shawbrook Bank has reached an agreement with the Financial Services Expo to launch the...

TRM partners with Crystal Mortgages

New broker network, The Right Mortgage and Protection (TRM), has entered into a preferred...

Brightstar wants specialist lending “made easy”

Brightstar Financial has embarked on a strategic marketing initiative, in order to support intermediaries...

Tesco Bank cuts loan rate to lowest ever

Tesco Bank has cut the interest rate on loans between £7,500 and £15,000 to...

Masthaven Secured Loans improves product proposition

Masthaven Secured Loans (MSL) has cut rates and now accepts an automated valuation model...

ThinCats in underwriting deal with ESO Capital Group

Peer to peer secured business lending platform ThinCats has announced a partnership with ESO...

UK heading for negative inflation

The governor of the Bank of England has warned that inflation could turn negative...

FLA: second charge repossessions down 36% year-on-year

The number of second charge mortgage repossessions was 447 in 2014, the lowest level...

HML predicts repossession rate of 0.20% this year

HML has forecast that there will be 20,606 residential property repossessions in 2015. The forecast comes as the...

New multimillion pound funding round for Borro

Borro has raised £13 million in funding, led by OurCrowd and Rocket Internet, to...

Largest growth in ‘extra’ consumer debt for a decade

UK households took on an average of £395 of additional consumer debt in 2014,...

Strong end to the year for secured lending

Loans Warehouse has reported that secured lending totalled £635.8 million in 2014. December's lending was...

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Mortgages, mutuality, members and making a difference

Anyone working in the mortgage market knows that a key area of our measurement is sales. How many cases we complete, the value of...

Stability is not a slowdown; it’s exactly what the bridging market needs

So, according to the recent Bridging & Development Lenders Association (BDLA) figures, bridging completions fell in Q2. Cue the usual hand-wringing. The headlines landed, the...

The rise of the silver pound

UK house prices may have cooled from their peak, but affordability pressures remain acute. Even with recent adjustments to interest rates, rising property values have...

Staggering stamp duty will make it easier for people to move

A proposal to spread stamp duty land tax payments across several years, in an effort to drive growth and boost the housing market, is...

Making Digital Sales Ready properties the norm, not the exception

Digital Sales Ready listings and upfront information have the potential to transform the home buying and selling journey, creating faster, more transparent transactions with...

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RAW Capital Partners sets lending record with strongest year to date

RAW Capital Partners has passed its 2024 lending total with three months of the...

Vida Bank strengthens board with appointment of former Kensington CFO

Vida Bank has appointed Alexander Filshie, the former chief financial officer at Kensington Mortgages,...

Rental yields strengthen as landlords scale up portfolios, says Fleet

Rental yields across England and Wales edged higher in the third quarter of 2025,...

Q&A: Jason Berry, Crystal Specialist Finance

Mortgage Soup fires the questions at Jason Berry, group sales director at Crystal Specialist...