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80% of secured lenders report month-on-month lending rise

Loans Warehouse's Secured Loan Index has revealed that second charge lending has exceeded £50,000,000...

Coogan: Help to Buy will boost seconds market

Michael Coogan, the former director general of the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) and...

New funding for Norton Finance

Norton Finance has secured a new financing facility from Royal Bank of Scotland Corporate...

New peer to peer lender launches

Wellesley & Co has become the UK’s first peer to peer lending platform to...

Borro: alternative is now part of the mainstream

Borro has suggested that the term 'alternative lending' is no longer an accurate term. The...

Beware ‘supersize’ loans, warns provider

Amigo Loans has warned against a new breed of short-term, high-APR lenders appearing in...

Xmas incentive from Smart Money Loans

Smart Money Loans has launched a new incentive campaign for Christmas completions. The secured...

Fall in second charge mortgage possessions

The number of second charge mortgage possessions in the third quarter of 2013 was...

Scotland still treated as an afterthought

Smart Money Loans is urging lenders not to forget the intermediary community in Scotland. Smart...

18-24 year olds contemplate payday loans for Xmas spending

Over a quarter of Brits are feeling the pressure this year having nothing yet...

Y3S reports £420k profit

Y3S Group Ltd has said that draft accounts from its three subsidiaries show a...

Historically low rates in unsecured borrowing

Analysis of market data undertaken by Sainsbury's Bank reveals that the cost of unsecured...

Prestige Finance to be “major secured loan player”

Prestige Finance has introduced new products and criteria. Changes from the OneSavings Bank (OSB) subsidiary...

Strong growth for second charge market

New figures from the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show growth of 14% in...

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Why the human relationship still defines real estate lending

AI is now a core driver of transformation in financial services and is reshaping the foundations of real estate lending. According to AllAboutAI.com over 85%...

Income protection: the unsung hero of the cost-of-living crisis

Higher mortgage rates, rising energy costs, and continued inflation have put pressure on many household budgets. Advisers spend time helping customers find the right rate,...

Why rigid credit scoring is locking too many people out of homeownership

Some people don’t fit the mould. That’s always been true in mortgage lending. But the tools used by most lenders to assess borrowers, particularly...

What a bigger market means for brokers

The latest Interpath and BDLA UK Bridging Market Survey confirms what many brokers are already experiencing on the ground, that bridging has hit the...

How social media can bridge the protection disconnect

The latest AMI Protection Viewpoint provided a compelling snapshot of the challenges and opportunities facing the protection market. The research highlights a worrying pattern that...

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Movera launches specialist KYC team to speed up property transactions

Movera has established a new dedicated Know Your Client (KYC) team to handle source...

Surveying industry undervalued in race to the bottom

After a 16-month break from the property industry I returned to find a landscape...

HSBC to cut residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates

HSBC UK is reducing rates across a wide range of residential and buy-to-let mortgage...

Zephyr Homeloans cuts rates across core buy-to-let offering

Specialist buy-to-let mortgage provider Zephyr Homeloans has unveiled fresh rate reductions across its standard...

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