Loans

Suros Capital sees growth in art as loan security

Luxury asset-backed short-term lender, Suros Capital, has reported a rise in loans secured against...

Norton Broker Services adds Interbridge Mortgages to seconds panel

Norton Broker Services, the specialist finance packager and master broker, has expanded its second...

Flying the second charge flag

The rise of the second charge mortgage market has been very well documented over...

Pepper Money ups second charge max age for earned income

Pepper Money has increased the maximum age it will accept earned income to and...

Flying the second charge flag

The rise of the second charge mortgage market has been very well documented over...

Selina Finance adopts Phoebus’ servicing platform

Phoebus has agreed a five-year mortgage servicing contract with Selina Finance. The second charge lender...

Step One Finance streamlines second charge application process

Step One Finance has announced improvements designed to streamline the second charge application process...

Optalitix partners with Spring Finance

Optalitix, a specialist insurance and finance software provider, has announced that it has been...

Pepper Money improves variable income criteria for second charges

Pepper Money has opened up its affordability criteria for second charge mortgage customers and...

West One Loans improves residential and second charge product ranges

West One Loans has made key changes to its residential and second charge product...

Pepper Money’s second charge journey goes paperless

Pepper Money has introduced a paperless application journey for second charge mortgages. The changes are...

Norton Home Loans unveils new Optimal deals and cuts rates

Norton Home Loans has introduced two new Optimal plans on its first and second...

Aria Finance reports record month in June

Specialist finance broker Aria Finance achieved a record month of completions in June. The firm...

Step One Finance improves second charge LTVs

Step One Finance has made positive changes to its second charge loans proposition. The maximum...

COMMENT

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

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...

Latest news

Cost of living hits homeownership plans for more than half of young Scots

More than half of younger adults in Scotland say cost-of-living pressures are the biggest...

Precise cuts residential mortgage offer times with new platform

Precise has launched a residential mortgage platform after a pilot reduced average application-to-offer times...

Impaired credit mortgage sales rise to highest level since 2008

Mortgage lending to borrowers with impaired credit histories has climbed to levels not seen...

Councils to gain earlier powers over long-term empty homes

Councils will be able to intervene when homes have stood empty for six months...

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