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Enra Specialist Finance completes £268m securitisation

Enra Specialist Finance has priced its first residential mortgage backed securities, backed by a...

100% growth in Q4 second charge lending predicted

Loans Warehouse believes we there will be 100% growth in second charge lending in...

Lenders tightening criteria while borrowing demands rise

The latest Knowledge Bank Tracker has found a common theme in monthly changes in...

Jon Hall to leave Masthaven Bank in 2021

Jon Hall, chief commercial officer and Deputy CEO of Masthaven Bank, will to leave...

AMI reveals timetable for board elections

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has published details of its board elections which...

Most brokers don’t discuss second charges

74% of brokers do not mention to their clients that they offer second charge...

Optimum Credit unveils new pricing and criteria

Optimum Credit has revamped its product offering, with improved pricing and new criteria. The second...

West One revamps second charge resi & BTL products

West One is making changes to its residential and buy-to-let second charge product ranges. This...

Equifinance returns to second charge lending

Second charge lender, Equifinance, has announced its full return to the market, following its...

The Loan Partnership selects OMS as primary provider

One Mortgage System (OMS) has been adopted by The Loan Partnership as its primary...

Second charge market “gradually recovering”

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has revealed that second charge mortgage new business...

United Trust Bank launches communication hub

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced its ‘UTB Secure Chat Hub’ in order to...

Redecorating and garden improvements top list of homeowner wants

Following three months of coronavirus lockdown, 69% of homeowners want to make changes to...

Brightstar launches Track & Trace system

The Brightstar Group has introduced its own Track & Trace system which, alongside the...

COMMENT

Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for stimulus, this time: abolish stamp duty. The logic feels intuitive -...

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

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Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for...

LendInvest bolsters residential and BTL broker support with Glasgow team expansion

LendInvest has expanded its commercial support team with a particular focus on helping brokers...

Hackathons test property data sharing in homebuying push

Proptech firms have tested how property data can be shared across the home-moving process...

Foundation refreshes buy-to-let range with new products and rate cuts

Foundation has refreshed its buy-to-let mortgage range with new products and rate reductions across...

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