Loans

Shawbrook breaks max loan ceiling for Mayfair second charge

Secured loan lender Shawbrook Bank has completed a loan £30,000 higher than the advertised...

Borro optimistic over alternative lending’s prospects

Personal asset lender borro believes that 2013 could be the year alternative becomes mainstream. "While...

Borro offering England rugby lead incentive

Borro has unveiled a broker incentive scheme, with international rugby as the prize. The first...

Masthaven improves secured loans offering

Masthaven Secured Loans has announced changes to its product range. It has made rate reductions...

Payday lender under fire for TV ad

The Money Shop has had one of its television adverts banned by the Advertising...

23% rise in secured lending

Gross lending in secured loans totalled £351.9 million in 2012, according to the latest...

FLS increasing competition in lending

Those looking to take out a personal loan, mortgage or credit card in 2013...

Blemain Finance changes products and services

Blemain Finance has introduced new plans, interest rates, LTVs and improved services. It has increased...

Lending milestone for Funding Circle

Peer to peer business lender Funding Circle has passed the £70 million lent milestone. Since...

Smart Money partners with Masthaven

Smart Money Loans says it is the first secured loan partner to market Masthaven’s...

Y3S to launch miLoan for iPhone

Y3S Loans is due to launch a smartphone and tablet application version of its...

Borro sees 122% rise in funded loans

Borro has revealed the main types of assets used by clients to access liquidity...

Masthaven moves into Scotland

Masthaven has announced that products from both Masthaven Bridging Finance and Masthaven Secured Loans...

OFT underfunded to police consumer credit effectively

A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has concluded that consumer credit regulation...

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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