Loans

Vantage Finance appoints head of sales

Vantage Finance has recruited Tim Bennett as its new head of sales. The packager says...

Brightstar wins Top Specialist Distributor award

Brightstar Financial won the Top Specialist Distributor award at the Precise Mortgages Awards, held...

LandBay offers festive reward to customers

Peer-to-peer lending platform Landbay is offering £50 of John Lewis vouchers to any new...

Y3S Group takes 50% stake in secured loans packager

Y3S Group has acquired 50% of Chaseblue Loans Ltd. Both businesses package secured loans for...

Simon Stern exits Prestige Finance

Simon Stern, business development director at Prestige Finance, is leaving the business. Stern had been...

Research shines a light on deliberate non-payers

A YouGov survey of 2,010 people for Equifax found that 16% of Britons have...

Tenet unveils consumer credit compliance service

Tenet says it believes most financial advisers need consumer credit authorisation, but that...

MiLoanbroker hits 6,000 user mark

MiLoanbroker.com, the free secured loans sourcing system from Y3S Loans, has registered over 6,000...

Best month for seconds in six years

Loans Warehouse has reported a total of £65,537,155 in second charge mortgages lent in...

Successful funding round for P2P lender

Landbay has completed its first institutional funding round. The peer-to-peer lending platform focused on the...

11% year-on-year rise in second charge volumes

Consumer finance new business grew by 7% in October compared with the same month...

V Loans to expand services following FCA permission

V Loans, the specialist secured lending arm of KR Group, has been granted full...

P2P lender expands down under

ThinCats announced the launch of joint ventures in Australia and Poland earlier this year...

Osborne’s IHT stance criticised by P2P lender

Alternative peer-to-peer lender HNW Lending has expressed its disappointment that in his Autumn Statement...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

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PMS reports double-digit growth in mortgages and protection

PMS Mortgage Club says it is on course for its strongest performance in five...

Property firms urged to engage early with digital home-moving reforms

Property professionals have been urged to start testing digital home-moving processes now rather than...

DPMSG launches consumer guide to Smart Property Data

The Digital Property Market Steering Group has launched a consumer-focused video explaining how Smart...

Together joins Equity Release Council as later life market broadens

Together has become a member of the Equity Release Council as the specialist lender...

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