Loans

Loans Warehouse expands lending panel

Leap Lending is the first of five new lenders which will be joining Loans...

Together unveils its lowest ever second charge rate

Together has introduced new fixed-term products to its second charge mortgages and is offering...

First mortgage repossessions up but seconds down

Mortgage repossessions during the final quarter of 2019 increased by 11% year-on-year, continuing the...

Second charge growth predicted to continue in 2020

£94 million in second charge lending was completed in December 2020 by its members, the...

Andrew Bloom to move to non-executive Masthaven role

Andrew Bloom, Masthaven's founder, is stepping back from his position as CEO at the...

Variety in criteria searches for start of 2020

Criteria search specialist Knowledge Bank has revealed that there was a 'market of contrasts'...

Pepper Money breaks £1bn barrier

Pepper Money has revealed that it completed more than £1bn worth of first and...

15th consecutive month of second charge double digit growth

Second charge mortgage new business volumes were up by 14% in November 2019, according...

Primis refreshes packager panel

Primis Mortgage Network has announced a refresh to its packager panel for immediate delivery...

TMA expands bridging offering

TMA has added short-term lender, Greenfield Mortgages, to its bridging panel. TMA members now have...

Two new hires for Spotcap

Spotcap UK has reported that Ian Mills and Duncan Ballingall have joined the UK...

New NED for Together Personal Finance

Together Financial Services has announced the appointment of John Hooper as a non-executive director...

CSF posts record annual performance in 2019

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has reported a decade of continual growth with a record...

Realrates.com partners with Loans Warehouse

Loans Warehouse has joined realrates.com's provider panel. The existing provider panel is predominately...

COMMENT

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

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ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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