Loans

Three new standby deals for Crown Mortgage Management

Crown Mortgage Management has signed three new agreements to provide standby administration services to...

LendInvest funds Wet N’ Wild rejuvenation

Peer-to-peer lender LendInvest has funded the multi-million pound redevelopment of Newcastle's Wet N' Wild...

Smart Money offers compliance consultancy

Smart Money is making the services of its compliance department available to introducing brokers...

Enterprise Finance hires five BDMs

Enterprise Finance has announced the addition of five new business development managers to its...

Quarter of exes share loan/credit card debt

According to a new survey conducted on behalf of debt advice and solutions provider...

Trio of payday loan ads banned

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned three payday loan adverts following a complaint...

Community banks proposed to take on payday lenders

A network of new Community Banks should be created across the country as an...

Dragonfly breaks £1bn barrier

Dragonfly Property Finance says it has now lent over £1bn of lending since its...

Skipton sells HML

Skipton Building Society has announced the sale of Homeloan Management Limited (HML), its mortgage...

Thomas Jefferson joins loan provider

Borro has announced an addition to its management team with the appointment of Thomas...

Majority expect rate rise over next 12 months

Legal & General’s latest Mortgage Mood survey has revealed that 68% of homeowners fear...

Logbook lenders “driving people into debt”

Citizens Advice has raised concerns that people taking out logbook loans are overloaded with...

H1 2014 secured lending up 33% year-on-year

Loans Warehouse has reported that the first half of 2014 saw secured lending volumes...

Helping portfolios grow with property refurbishment loans

The refurbishment lending market has seen a recent boost with property investors and homeowners...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let and the next generation of landlords

There has been plenty of discussion recently about the future of buy-to-let, whether landlords can continue to make their investments work, and what the...

Growth can hide a lot – until it stops

Since getting involved with Rotherham United Women I've realised football and business have quite a lot in common. One thing in particular: growth can hide...

Nobody wants your ‘market update’

You sent the same email on Monday that everyone else sent. Moneyfacts had just put the average five-year fix at 6%, the first time in...

The industry needs to support Shared Ownership

This week, I want to put the spotlight on Shared Ownership. It deserves to be treated as a genuinely viable route onto the ladder,...

Advisers should be brave enough to drown out the noise

If you thought the economic and mortgage market commentary had been particularly noisy recently, I suspect you haven't heard anything yet, because with the...

Latest news

Expat buy-to-let rates rise sharply for lower-LTV borrowers

British expatriate landlords with larger deposits are facing higher mortgage rates than borrowers with...

Commonhold reform faces practical challenges over finance and building management

The introduction of commonhold as an alternative to leasehold will require significant preparation across...

Family BS reduces fixed mortgage pricing for landlords and homeowners

Family Building Society has cut rates across its two-year fixed mortgage range by up...

Sprive records ninefold rise in shoppers as mortgage cashback spending reaches £185m

Mortgage cashback app Sprive has reported a sharp increase in customer activity, with shoppers...

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