Loans

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...

Festive giveaway from master broker

Loans Warehouse has launched a Christmas competition. All introducers who submit ‘sold’ applications to Loans...

Positive Lending launches Xmas incentive

Positive Lending has unveiled its Christmas reward scheme. For any secured, bridging, commercial, development or...

Office expansion for Masthaven Secured Loans

Masthaven Secured Loans has moved into new premises. The secured loan arm of Masthaven Group...

Borro sees increase in property-based applications

Borro has reported a 183% rise in property related loan applications from customers from...

Borro secures more funding

Borro has announced a new £20 million lending facility through Octopus Investments ("Octopus"). The lender...

OFT consults on suspending credit licences

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is consulting on how it proposes to use...

Omni Capital sets billion-pound lending target

Omni Capital has received backing from its parent in its quest to reach a...

9% month-on-month fall in secured lending

Second change lending in the third quarter of of 2012 reached £98.3m, a 25%...

Payne joins rebuildingsociety.com

Peer-to-business lending platform rebuildingsociety.com has announced the appointment of Nigel Payne, the former managing...

Dragonfly passes redemption milestone

Dragonfly Property Finance says it has now redeemed over £200 million of loans since...

Successful new funding round for borro

Borro has raised £16 million in funding, led by Canaan Partners, a global venture...
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Homebuying

Removing friction from the homebuying journey

One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...

Build, baby, build? Well we will need to fund more than the usual suspects

There was a noticeable sense of optimism at UKREiiF this year. That may sound surprising given the economic headwinds of recent years, but the...

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market riding high

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market has created real value for customers – there’s no excuse to ignore it. When a UK borrower reaches 55,...

How small and medium-sized lenders can fix the origination headache

We are constantly told that to fix the mortgage journey, we need to rip everything out and start again. That unless a lender replaces its...

A new PM brings a new opportunity to rethink housing policy

Politics, as it seems to do in recent times, has moved at remarkable speed over the last couple of weeks. In what feels like...

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MT Finance latest firm to offer World Cup time off

As mortgage firms gear up for England’s 1am World Cup clash against Mexico on...
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Broker optimism grows as sub-4% rates edge closer

A series of mortgage rate cuts from lenders this week has sparked optimism among...
Buy-to-let

Renters face higher costs amid strong demand

Two in three (63%) recent movers ended up paying more rent than planned, as...
Buy-to-let

ModaMortgages cuts rates across limited-edition BTL range

ModaMortgages has announced a reprice of its limited-edition buy-to-let range, with rate reductions across...

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