The popularity of using a limited company vehicle for landlords to purchase buy-to-let properties continues to grow. Q3 research from Foundation

Life happens. No one wants to focus on events which may put a strain on short-term financial positions, but things do

Originally launched in August 2008 by two San Francisco based flatmates, Airbnb operates an online marketplace which allows its members (aka

Bridging loan completions have reached record levels — which means the need for sound advice and service has never been greater

Having just held our fifteenth Complete FS Expo, I know from personal experience how important expos and seminars can be when

Optimism for the future of the specialist lending sector and the increasingly important role that brokers can play in the lending

The stability of the sector is forever being questioned but most surveys don’t tell us much and the overall signs are

With Article 50 triggering the formal process of the UK leaving the European Union beginning in earnest and an impending General

As complexity levels grow, advisers are in a prime position to drive the lending steam train rather than stoke the engine

Plenty of words have been written about the Brexit result but a period of uncertainty is inevitable. Understandably, some lenders have

I would like to start this article by drawing your attention to an event which I believe demonstrates the positivity that

Complete FS’ Director, Tony Salentino responding to the call from brokers to have direct access to underwriters due to increasing client

While there may be a difference in the actual numbers, any bridging statistics you look at for 2015 will agree on

I am sure there is going to be plenty of press of the looking back and looking forward variety in the

So the bridging market is about to breach the £3 billion mark for the first time and might probably have done

‘You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink’ is an age old proverb. This particular proverb

Should mortgage advisers check the client understands the consequences of using their pension fund to purchase a BTL property? Of course

Second-charge mortgage lenders have been battling it out with their product offerings in recent months but are they hitting the spot

At the heart of this problem lies the huge change in lenders’ psychology stemming from the MMR. The shift in accountability

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

Complete FS, the national specialist lending packager, is looking at a bumper year for the BTL market in 2015. Recent changes

I will leave it to others to sum up the best and worst of 2014, suffice to say that for all

Just how viable the bridging market is, was brought home to me having read the latest ASTL data for the quarter

Lending to individuals continues at pace despite some slowing of the market, thanks in no small part to the Mortgage Market

The growth in prominence of the bridging sector is evident, and looking at the current state of the property market it’s

It is quite common for buy to let landlords to buy property that requires a certain amount of refurbishment as they

The unexpected intervention by the Chancellor in the Budget, announcing the unshackling of the way in which pension lump sums can

In early 2013 a change in development rights enabled owners of property with B1 class of use to convert their property

As we continue to dissect the fallout from the Budget for do-ers, savers and candlestick makers – or something like that

A recent survey of the buy to let market showed that 1 in 8 mortgages are buy to let mortgages, average

Are you a first time buyer or simply looking to move home or do some home improvements. With the introduction of

Talking to brokers about development finance they repeatedly tell me that high street banks tend to find more reasons not to

People re-mortgage for a number of reasons. The most common one is for home improvements but sometimes it is to capital

A re-mortgage has long been viewed as providing a relatively cheap way of raising money. The rates obtainable on a mortgage

Not that many years ago and prior to the so called credit crunch and banking crisis many home owners were able