Loans

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...

Omni Capital partners with boutique brokerage for ‘jumbo’ deals

Omni Capital and Arc & Co have joined forces to complete back-to-back second-charge bridging...

Second charge brokers to benefit from interest-only demise

The continuing squeeze on interest-only customers means they need brokers more than ever to...

Three new hires for Enterprise

Enterprise Finance has made a trio of appointments. Paul Huxter joins Enterprise as a business...

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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