Opinion
This year’s market predictions that piqued my interest
1 month ago The start of the year often brings a flurry of predictions and surveys reviewing the year just gone. This year a couple of stories caught my attention‘We expect 2020 to be characterised by some consolidation and a shake-out of any lenders that continue to cut corners’
3 months ago According to the latest figures from the Association of Short Term Lenders, bridging loan applications in the third quarter of 2019 grew by nearly 17% on the same period in 2018, reaching £6.1bnA cautionary tale for the bridging world
4 months ago Another month, another P2P lender exits the marketChanging face of BTL is a driver of growth in the bridging sector
7 months ago The latest figures suggest that short-term lending experienced a boom in the second quarter of the year, with more than £1bn worth of bridging written during Q2 2019 — an 11.8% increase on the prevPeople still need to move despite political uncertainty
8 months ago Summer is normally pretty quiet for the mortgage marketSpecialist lending isn't all about numbers
9 months ago When it comes to the business of specialist lending — be that residential, buy-to-let, bridging or second charge loans — we often write about it in the media in terms of numbersLandlords are an entrepreneurial bunch
9 months ago A plethora of regulatory and tax changes over recent years has seen the buy-to-let landscape shift dramaticallyHow to bridge those house buying bumps
11 months ago I was struck by a statistic I read in the January snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) which said that it now takes 19.4 weeks, on average, to sell a property in the UK â€Most people are getting on with their lives regardless of politics
1 year ago Newspapers have a habit of seeking out bad news — shock, loss and downfalls make the best headlines
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