Loans

miLoan passes eight figure milestone

Y3S’s secured and bridging loan sourcing system has achieved £10 million in loan completions...

Q2 sees 7% rise in consumer credit spending

Consumer credit borrowing from members of the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA)  increased by 7%...

Masthaven Secured Loans opens its doors

Masthaven Secured Loans has begun its second charge lending push. Colonial Secured Loans completed Masthaven's...

Half a million pound fine for payday lender

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has imposed a £544,505 financial penalty on the...

Fall in second charge repossessions

Repossessions made by second-charge mortgage providers were down by 37.21% in the second quarter...

Paragon acquires further RBS loans

The Paragon Group of Companies has acquired further unsecured consumer loans, through its Idem...

Access 4 Finance pleased with introducer interest

Access 4 Finance has revealed that since the launch of its new website and...

Seconds packager sees boosts from new clients and brokers

V Loans has reported a significant rise in enquiries from brokers who are looking...

New intermediary front-end from Shawbrook Bank

Shawbrook Bank says it has streamlined its secured lending process. The lender has launched a...

Money Puzzle opts for the Secured Loan Network

The Secured Loan Network has been chosen to provide its services to the introducers...

Blemain: BTL seconds up 40%

Blemain Finance has claimed that buy-to-let second charge lending has risen by 40% in...

12% rise in secured lending, says new survey

Secured loan lending rose to £150 million in the first six months of 2012,...

Think again about secured loans, brokers told

Brightstar Financial argues more intermediaries should reconsider secured loans as a viable capital raising...

Y3S introduces miLoan 3.0

Y3S has rolled out a new and updated version of miLoanbroker.com to mark the...
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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...
News

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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