Loans

Second charge lending rebounds

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

P2P platform gets IFISA green light

LandlordInvest has secured ISA manager approval from HM Revenue and Customs. The FCA authorised peer-to-peer lending platform...

Loan market “needs to be clearer and fairer”

Research from Saga Money has found that potential borrowers believe the UK loan market...

P2P lending platform receives full FCA authorisation

Peer to peer lending platform Octopus Choice has become the first adviser-focused P2P platform to be...

Loans firm rapped over envelope

A Belfast-based loans firm has had a complaint about one of its adverts upheld...

ThinCats makes board-level appointments

Peer-to-peer lender ThinCats has appointed Jill Sandford and Damon Walford to the board of...

What’s in a name?

December is supposed to be a quieter month for new business and sales activity....

Y3S takes 50% stake in Pink Pig Loans

Y3S Group has acquired a 50% shareholding in Pink Pig Loans (PPL), a brokerage...

Record month for West One Loans

West One Loans has reported a record month in November with £54 million lent across residential...

Fluent for Advisers bucks FLA trend

Second charge distributor Fluent for Advisers (F4A) has seen new business continue to grow...

Brightstar expands unsecured range

Brightstar has revealed that it completed over £1 million worth of unsecured business loans in...

Widespread public ignorance over second charges

79% of people in the UK don’t know what a second charge mortgage is,...

Fall in second charge lending

Latest figures from the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show growth of 6% in consumer finance new...

Tenet unveils direct to lender second charge sourcing solution

Mortgage Brain has launched TenetLoansBrain, a direct to lender second charge sourcing solution enabling...
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COMMENT

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...

Latest news

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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