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Truffle secures £500k second charge with Pepper Money

Truffle Specialist Finance has completed a £500,000 second charge mortgage with Pepper Money, used...

Tandem reduces second charge rates by up to 90bps

Tandem has reduced its residential second charge mortgage products by up to 90 basis...

Unsecured debt rising for those with adverse credit

43% of people with adverse credit say their level of debt has increased in...

Enra Specialist Finance reports record trading results in 2023

Enra Specialist Finance, the parent company of specialist lender West One Loans and specialist...

Norton Broker Services unveils unsecured business finance

Norton Broker Services has launched an unsecured business finance proposition designed to help brokers...

Suros Capital widens service to business lending

Suros Capital, the luxury asset backed short term lender, will now lend to companies...

West One Loans lowers residential rates and overhauls criteria

West One Loans has reduced its residential rates by up to 100 basis points...

West One Loans reprices mortgage range

West One Loans has announced changes to its mortgage range with significant pricing reductions...

Large variation in consumer vulnerability across key sectors

The latest data from the MorganAsh Resilience System (MARS) has revealed that firms using...

UTB reduces second charge rates and product fee

United Trust Bank (UTB) Mortgages for Intermediaries has reduced interest rates for its second...

Secured loans offer window of opportunity ahead of remortgaging

It’s coming up to decision time for millions of mortgage borrowers. According to market...

Suros Capital uses past valuation for fast follow-on loan

Suros Capital, the luxury asset-backed short-term lender, has completed a follow on loan of...

FCA takes further steps amid growth in Buy Now Pay Later

There has been a significant increase in the use of buy-now-pay-later (BNPL), according to...

UTB cuts second charge rates by up to 1.14 percentage points 

United Trust Bank (UTB) Mortgages for Intermediaries has reduced interest rates for its second...
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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...

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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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Phoebus completes latest SOC 2 Type II assessment

Phoebus Software has renewed its SOC 2 Type II attestation after KPMG assessed the...
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Low-deposit mortgage lending climbs 38% to £24.7bn

Mortgage lending at loan-to-value ratios above 90% rose sharply over the past year as...
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Stonebridge reports sharp rise in protection policies placed in trust

The proportion of protection policies being placed in trust has risen substantially over the...

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