Loans

Paragon revamps second charge product range

Paragon has cut the interest rates on its second charge mortgage products. Aimed at prime...

Prestige completes its largest ever second charge

Prestige Finance has completed a £1,000,000 second charge loan within three weeks. This is the...

New lender aims to halve secured loan completion time

Digital secured lender, Selina Finance has launched its flexible loan product with a promise...

JLM Mortgage Services unveils specialist mortgage desk for members

JLM Mortgage Services has launched Master Private Finance, a new specialist mortgage desk exclusively...

TMA in second charge partnership with Paragon

TMA Club will be providing its members with access to a range of additional second...

MCI Club selects Knowledge Bank as criteria search partner

MCI Club has partnered with Knowledge Bank for its exclusive criteria search provision. It means...

The Money Group sponsors Olympic judo athlete

The Money Group is sponsoring judo athlete Ashley McKenzie ahead of his planned appearance...

Review of credit information market opened by regulator

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a market study to examine how the...

Optimum Credit increases prime second charge LTV to 100%

Optimum Credit is increasing the maximum loan to value (LTV) available on its Prime...

Confidence in the specialist lending market continues to rise

Masthaven Bank's latest Broker Beat report has found that 73% of intermediaries working in...

United Trust Bank reveals 2018 ‘Open Book’ winner

United Trust Bank has announced that the winner of its 2018 ‘Open Book’ broker...

Smart Money appoints national account manager

Specialist finance master broker Smart Money has announced the appointment of Gary Lomax as its...

This is not a competition

With recent FLA figures showing that second charge business was up 31% in March,...

Second charge volumes continue to rise

The Finance & Leasing Association has reported that second charge mortgage market volumes were...
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networks

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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Buy-to-let

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...
News

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...
Appointments

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

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

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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