Press releases for April 2016

29 April 2016

France overtakes Spain with 53% of overseas mortgage enquiries Ideal buying conditions are drawing British investors back to the French property market, according to Conti, the overseas mortgage spec...

28 April 2016

Completion on the Bank’s CI2 product, at 66.64% LTV for £516,423 on 5 years interest only. This case demonstrates the effectiveness of Shawbrook’s network of panel solicitors via its on-site legal pa...

28 April 2016

Fleet Mortgages, the buy-to-let and specialist lender, has today (28th April 2016) suggested the introduction of new underwriting rules for buy-to-let lenders by the Prudential Regulation Authority (P...

28 April 2016

Equifinance, the specialist second charge mortgage lender, has appointed the highly experienced Simon Stern as a strategic consultant to develop the company’s distribution, new products and broker off...

27 April 2016

Just a few weeks since celebrating being chosen as a finalist in the 2016 Moneyfacts Awards, United Trust Bank’s Specialised Mortgages division have learned that they have also been shortlisted in the...

27 April 2016

The Conveyancing Association (CA), the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry, has today (27th April 2016) announced a series of updates and enhancements to its Conveyancing Progression Trai...

26 April 2016

Marsden’s Intermediary team has released more changes to its older borrower range thanks to feedback received from mortgage intermediaries. The Marsden has released a new product portfolio with exten...

25 April 2016

Fairstone Group, one of the IFA market’s fastest growing consolidators, today announces that it has secured a major investment from Synova Capital, the award winning Private Equity investor which focu...

25 April 2016

The Houses of Multiple Occupancy (HMO) market is set to see substantial investment over the next year, with research from Shawbrook Bank indicating that one in two property investors (53%)1 are lookin...

25 April 2016

Clever Lending, the master broker, has joined the HL Partnership (HLP) network as a provider of second charge mortgages, and commercial and bridging finance. The partnership is for Clever Lending to ...

21 April 2016

Equifinance, the specialist secured loan lender, has expressed alarm at the sudden rise in consumer debt judgements which reached a post-crisis peak in 2015 according to figures just published by the ...

20 April 2016

New process can go from application to Indicative Mortgage Offer (IMO) in 15 minutes Shawbrook Bank Commercial Mortgages has today announced the launch of a new digital application service – “E-AIP” ...

20 April 2016

Front Events, the events company headed by James Prosser and responsible for the Financial Services Expo (FSE) shows, has today (20th April 2016) announced the launch of a brand new event, FSE Birming...

20 April 2016

Paradigm Protect, the specialist Protection and GI distributor within the Paradigm Group, has today (20th April 2016) launched a Group Risk panel for the benefit of its member firms. All members will...

19 April 2016

Foundation Home Loans (FHL), the Bracknell based BTL lender, has reported that over 94% of packaged cases received by the end of January completed or were ready for completion prior to the Stamp Duty ...

19 April 2016

Positive Lending, the multi-award winning specialist packager and master-broker, announces the appointment of Alec Wimbleton as Compliance and Business Assurance Director. Alec will be responsible for...

19 April 2016

In February this year The Conveyancing Foundation Charity raised over £10,000 for the Shelter Cymru housing charity with a cycle ride from Cardiff to Dublin. The Foundation’s next charity cycle is a ...

19 April 2016

Mansfield Building Society has reported a 9.5% year on year growth in mortgage assets in its annual Report and Accounts for the year ending 31 December 2015. In the same period the Society also achie...

18 April 2016

A new sourcing system for equity release and retirement lending products being launched in May will be available to advisers free of charge and will offer products with enhanced terms for members of t...

18 April 2016

Complete FS, the South Coast based packager, has announced that specialist lender Kensington is now on its lending panel. Complete FS will offer all of Kensington’s core range of residential and buy ...

15 April 2016

AToM (All Types of Mortgages Ltd), the Specialist Mortgage Packager/Distributor, is delighted to announce a new relationship with Kensington Mortgages. Dale Jannels, Managing Director at AToM said, ...

14 April 2016

United Trust Bank has today launched its new flexible ‘Residential Property Improvement Loans’ aimed at experienced property professionals. The product offers experienced property professionals a cho...

14 April 2016

Advisers from appointed representative (AR) firms of Stonebridge Group, the mortgage and insurance network, have dominated a listing of the Top 250 mortgage advisers in the country. 17 individual mor...

13 April 2016

Bank still setting the trend by being the only lender to openly publish these figures Shawbrook Bank’s Commercial Mortgages division has today released its service level agreement (SLA) figures for M...

13 April 2016

Demonstrating how seriously it takes its post MCD responsibilities, Fluent Money, the UK’s largest second charge distributor, is particularly proud to announce that it is on course to have all 85 of i...

13 April 2016

The Conveyancing Association (CA), the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry, has today (13th April 2016) announced a new partnership with DUAL Asset Underwriting, the world’s largest under...

13 April 2016

The Later Life Academy (LLA), the commercial and training organisation for later life advisers, has today (13th April 2016) submitted its response to the FCA Discussion Paper (DP16-1), ‘Ageing Populat...

12 April 2016

Source Insurance, the award winning general insurance broker is pleased to announce the appointment of David Carr as Business Development Manager for the North region. David joins Source from Proximo,...

12 April 2016

SortRefer, the award winning online conveyancing portal, has announced the expansion of its select conveyancing panel to improve choice and maintain service standards in the wake of increasing levels ...

11 April 2016

Source Commercial are today delighted to announce the addition of Covea to their Online Landlord Portfolio panel. Covea will join E-Underwriting on the Online platform. The addition of Covea marks an...

08 April 2016

Defaqto, a provider of independent financial product and fund information and ratings, today publishes its latest guide for advisers, exploring the business protection market. Business protection is a...

08 April 2016

United Trust Bank’s Specialist Mortgages team is celebrating being chosen as a finalist in the 2016 Moneyfacts Awards, less than a year since launching the new division. United Trust Bank is a finali...

07 April 2016

Completion on the Bank’s STL1 product, for £203,400 on 12 months interest only. Shawbrook is pleased to report the completion of a short term loan at 55% LTV, for a client of Strategic Partner ‘Searc...

07 April 2016

Clever Lending, the master broker, is still seeing a number of Directly Authorised (DA) adviser firms unsure as to which route they go down for dealing with increasing second charge mortgage enquiries...

06 April 2016

Mansfield Building Society has extended the maximum age from 80 to 85 on its 2 year discounted rate product to 60% LTV. Available for purchase or remortgage with a maximum repayment term of 30 years,...

06 April 2016

Fluent Money, the UK’s largest second charge distributor, is reporting that strong collaboration between lenders, distributors and brokers in the run up to MCD implementation, played a big part in ens...

06 April 2016

John Waddicker, director at specialist broker Positive Commercial Finance, discusses the definition of when a development site is deemed to be completed. Some interesting site development research wa...

06 April 2016

With just a few weeks to go to the Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) at Leeds Royal Armouries, all the stands have been sold for the event on 20th April. The Expo has been enthusiastically supported by ov...

05 April 2016

Source Insurance, the award winning general insurance broker has added an additional specialist landlord property insurance product onto its extensive panel. Landlord Plus is underwritten by managing ...

05 April 2016

Leading online discount life insurance and protection broker Cavendish Online has launched a white label service aimed at providing intermediaries such as mortgage brokers, IFAs and other financial bu...

05 April 2016

As part of an ongoing commitment to improving their service proposition for brokers, Shawbrook has made significant updates to its application process for Large Loan transactions. As Sales and Market...

04 April 2016

Specialist distributor TFC Homeloans has relocated its head office to Manchester city centre. The new office is based in the heart of the city, within minutes of the mainline Piccadilly station. The...

01 April 2016

Paradigm Protect, the specialist Protection and GI distributor within the Paradigm Group, has today (1st April 2016) added a further commercial insurer, CDC, to its panel of general insurance referral...

01 April 2016

Leading GI provider Uinsure gave brokers the chance to win one year of free home insurance at the Financial Services Expo in Glasgow earlier this month. Brokers at the event, held at the city’s Hilto...

01 April 2016

Roma Finance, the Manchester based bridging finance and development lender, has seen a 300% increase in lending volumes in quarter one 2016 compared to the same period in 2015. Average loan size has ...