Loans

New funding line for Non-Standard Finance lender

Loans at Home, part of Non-Standard Finance plc, has secured a new £10m revolving...

CSC Loans completes Together’s largest second charge BTL

Master broker CSC Loans has completed a £1.435 million second charge buy-to-let loan with...

TFC Homeloans hires HR business partner

TFC Homeloans has recruited Liz Payne as HR business partner to support the next...

New intermediary brand for Fluent Money

Second charge distributor Fluent Money is launching separate brand for the broker market, Fluent for...

Shawbrook makes property finance staff changes

Shawbrook Bank has announced a series of personnel changes following the recent combination of...

Together hires retail division chief

Specialist lender Together has appointed former CEO of Harrods Bank, Peter Ball, as chief...

EXCLUSIVE: rebrand for specialist distributor

Brilliant Solutions has announced the rebranding of its business, the latest part in the distributor's transformation over...

“Landmark” judgement in negligent valuation case

A law firm has claimed that a Court of Appeal judgment in a professional...

Shawbrook unifies commercial and secured lending divisions

Shawbrook Bank has combined its commercial and secured lending divisions into a combined property...

Brightstar wins global IIP award

Brightstar Financial has been awarded the Investors in People (IIP) Gold Employer of the Year...

FSE: ‘keep calm and carry on’ after EU vote

Advisers need to ‘keep calm and carry on’ in the aftermath of the EU...

Lending “stagnant” in May

The Bank of England has reported that the number of loan approvals for house...

Together: We’ll support brokers through Brexit 

Following the uncertainty stemming from the referendum decision last week to leave the European...

SimplyBiz Mortgages expands secured loan panel

SimplyBiz Mortgages has announced the addition of Prestige Finance, part of the One Savings...

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

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...

Suffolk BS tops £800m in mortgage assets after strong 2025 growth

Suffolk Building Society has passed £800m of mortgage assets for the first time after...

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...

Foundation returns with revised buy-to-let and residential mortgage range

Foundation has returned to the market with a revised product range across both buy-to-let...

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