Loans

Blemain Group secured significant funding

The Blemain Group has secured a £640 million three-year banking facility to help existing...

New proposition from Niche Financial Solutions

Niche Financial Solutions is running a prize draw to celebrate the launch of...

Business opportunities from seconds being shunned?

A well-known packager has claimed that brokers are missing a trick by not considering...

House purchase unsecured loan available from Norton

Norton Broker Services is now offering a new exclusive unsecured loan product that can...

Brightstar added to Masthaven’s seconds panel

Brightstar Financial has joined the panel of new secured loans lender Masthaven Secured Loans. The...

Paragon acquires MBNA portfolio

The Paragon Group of Companies has acquired a further portfolio of closed UK consumer...

Masthaven seconds now available through Promise

Promise Solutions has added Masthaven secured loans to its sourcing system. Brokers can now source...

Licence revoked of second charge/bridging lender

Reddy Corporation Ltd has had its credit licence revoked by the Office of Fair...

Billions of debt hidden from loved ones

£41 billion of debt is being hidden by people in relationships from their partners,...

Promise expands secured loan offering

Promise has added another secured loan product to its sourcing platform. The latest offering is...

Rise in secured loan lending

Secured loan lending in July broke the £30 million for the first time since...

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...

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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