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Blemain supports local hospital charity

Blemain Group has donated over £400 and written over 200 Christmas cards to children...

2013 predictions from MoneySupermarket.com

MoneySupermarket.com has revealed its personal finance predictions For 2013. Consumer Finances Clare Francis, site editor at...

New high for secured loans

Overall secured loan lending in 2012 currently stands at £327.1 million, the highest level...

Masthaven achieves its first six-figure secured loan

V Loans, in association with introducer, The Aftersales Network, has helped Masthaven Secured Loans...

Mayfair Bridging to offer syndicated bridging loans

Mayfair Bridging has been authorised by the FSA to offer syndicated bridging loans as...

Loans Warehouse completes its first large Shawbrook loan

Loans Warehouse has completed its first loan on Shawbrook Bank’s new Larger Loan plan...

Business boost for Complete FS

Complete FS has seen an increase of over 63% in new business levels over...

CAB launches national payday loan survey

The Citizens Advice service has seen a ten-fold increase in the proportion of clients...

Diverse reasons for secured loan enquiries

The secured loan market is not only growing in terms of business volume but...

Fine art increasingly popular with borro

Since December 2011, asset lender borro has seen a 21.7% increase in the loan...

Secured lending up 1.6% on previous month

The amount in second charges lent between January 2012 and October 2012 is significantly...

Brokers reveal secured loan attitudes

The average UK mortgage broker receives seven secured loan enquiries each year, according to...

New app from Fluent Money

Fluent Money is to launch its first smartphone app, Fluent View, on iTunes on...

Fall in number of second charge repossessions

Repossessions made by second-charge mortgage providers were down by 25.9% in the third quarter...

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...

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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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