Loans

Positive Lending and UTB behind Silverstone F1 competition

Specialist lending packager and distributor Positive Lending and United Trust Bank are offering the...

Y3S helps Shawbrook complete largest loan

Shawbrook Bank has completed on a £330,000 secured loan, its largest to date. ...

OFT revokes payday lender’s licence

Online payday lender, MCO Capital has had its consumer credit licence revoked by the...

Promise offers unsecured loan facility

Promise Solutions has unveiled an online unsecured loan facility for its introducing brokers. Interest rates...

Brightstar holds second Masthaven lender day

Brightstar Financial is holding its second Lender Day in association with Masthaven Bridging and...

New products from Prestige Finance

Second charge lender Prestige Finance, acquired last year by OneSavings Bank plc, has launched...

Micro-businesses being shunned by traditional finance sources

Only 20% of micro-businesses were funded through a bank loan and one in six...

New product from Equifinance

Promise Solutions has exclusively launched Equifinance Plus, the latest lender to join the secured...

Sesame Bankhall Specialist Lending Services expands panel

Sesame Bankhall Specialist Lending Services (SBSLS) has added Shawbrook Bank (Shawbrook) to its...

Payday lenders risk losing licences after OFT crackdown

The Office of Fair Trading has given notice to 50 main payday lenders that...

Smart Money Loans unveils broker marketing package

Smart Money Loans has launched a package of marketing literature aimed at the broker...

Promise completes Nemo’s largest ever loan

Master broker Promise Solutions has completed a loan for £199,000 including fees, which represents...

HSBC sells secured loan portfolio

A portfolio of secured loans has been sold by HSBC-owned HFC Bank Limited and...

University bans payday loan marketing

The University of East London has banned payday loan companies from marketing their services...

COMMENT

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...

Why you need to know what sits behind the average review score

There’s a funny thing about review scores. The better they are, the less likely we are to question them. If a company is sitting at...

The new Chancellor wants to remove barriers to growth; he should start with housing

There was probably a degree of unintended irony in the Treasury choosing to call the Chancellor, John Healey’s, first major market ‘intervention’ his ‘Growth...

Brokers are losing the attention battle 1,000 to 3

Take a client you placed on a 5-year fix last year. Over the life of that deal, their bank is now planning to contact...

Latest news

Private rental sector ‘losing 562 properties a day’

The private rental sector is losing properties at its fastest rate since records began...

CHL Mortgages launches limited edition buy-to-let range and eases criteria

CHL Mortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range alongside a series of criteria...

ModaMortgages launches fee-free limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition range of two-year and five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let products...

Conveyancer decline adds to capacity pressure as exchange times lengthen

The number of solicitors working in residential conveyancing has continued to fall as separate...

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