Loans

TMA to offer second charge Precise Mortgages products

TMA Club is expanding its offering by adding second charge products to its range through...

Matt Le Tissier to be main speaker at Complete FS Silver Jubilee Expo

Complete FS, the South Coast based specialist packager, has announced that Matt Le Tissier,...

Brokers twice as likely to refer, than write, second charges

SimplyBiz Mortgages has revealed that research conducted at a series of its recent events found that...

1st Stop increases N. Ireland maximum second charge loan amount

1stStop Home Loans has upped its maximum  loan amount for second charges in Northern Ireland to £35,000. No first...

FCA reveals urban-rural differences in financial services

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the latest analysis from its Financial Lives...

VIBE Finance selects OMS

One Mortgage System (OMS) has been chosen by specialist brokerage VIBE Finance. The newly launched directly...

United Trust Bank increases second charge maximum loan size

United Trust Bank (UTB) has increased the maximum amount it will lend on a...

The Loan Partnership to distribute Vida seconds range

Vida Homeloans has added The Loan Partnership to its second charge master broker panel. The...

West One offers secured loans in Scotland

West One Secured Loans is offering residential second charge mortgage products to borrowers whose...

Why include second charge in your capital raising deliberations

If your reaction to the above is ‘why should I?’ then I won’t take...

8% rise in second charge mortgage lending

Second charge mortgage new business volumes up by 8% in April, the Finance &...

Clever Lending says forums show increasing need for specialist finance

Clever Lending has reported rising demand from brokers for ways to capitalise on lending...

Masthaven improves its long-term lending offering

Masthaven has made changes to its long-term lending product range with the launch of...

1st Stop Group passes lending milestone

1st Stop Group has revealed that its loan book has passed the £150 million...

COMMENT

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

Latest news

Rate rises squeeze demand as brokers lean on ‘needs-based’ borrowers

Rising mortgage costs driven by global uncertainty are beginning to weigh on borrower demand...

Finova Broker appoints Ben Radford to lead Broker Payments

Finova Broker has promoted Ben Radford to head of Finova Broker Payments, the mortgage...

Lloyds data glitch exposed details of up to 447,936 banking customers, MPs told

Up to 447,936 customers of Lloyds Banking Group were affected by a data breach...

Chancellor presses lenders to expand support for borrowers ahead of rate resets

The government has secured fresh commitments from major lenders to step up engagement with...

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