I am sure there is going to be plenty of press of the looking back and looking forward variety in the weeks to come. It is the time of the…

So the bridging market is about to breach the £3 billion mark for the first time and might probably have done so when this edition of Mortgage Strategy is published.…

'You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink' is an age old proverb. This particular proverb has been in continuous use since the 12th century.…

Should mortgage advisers check the client understands the consequences of using their pension fund to purchase a BTL property?Of course a mortgage adviser should check, but it is not his…

Second-charge mortgage lenders have been battling it out with their product offerings in recent months but are they hitting the spot when it comes to what brokers need and are…

At the heart of this problem lies the huge change in lenders' psychology stemming from the MMR. The shift in accountability to lenders for client outcomes allied to individual interpretation…

Although we are talking about short-term finance, we cannot afford to do other than a first-class job in procuring the best deal in all casesLiving as we do in a…

Complete FS, the national specialist lending packager, is looking at a bumper year for the BTL market in 2015.Recent changes to the pension rules around lump sum withdrawal, due to…

I will leave it to others to sum up the best and worst of 2014, suffice to say that for all the concerns that swirl around the full adoption of…

Just how viable the bridging market is, was brought home to me having read the latest ASTL data for the quarter ending 30 June 2014. Measured against the same period…