Finance
Surveying the shape of Britain’s development finance market in 2019
'If the figures add up, there is finance available', says Enness Group's CEO Islay Robinson - despite current economic uncertainty and the UK's development finance scene having seen some big shifts in…
Home-mover & buy-to-let lending falls as remortgaging booms
10.8% more homeowner remortgages were completed in 2018 than in 2017, says UK Finance, while 11.5% fewer new buy-to-let and 1.9% fewer new home-mover mortgages went through.
Wealth taxes are back in fashion – but they’re still a terrible idea
'There is simply no escaping the fact that wealth is far more difficult to tax than income,' argues Jan Zeber in The Spectator.
Crime Agency freezes accounts of student who paid £390k up-front to rent a Knightsbridge penthouse
Unexplained Wealth Order looms for 22-year-old who paid £1,000-a-day for student digs on Cadogan Square.
Tuscan moves home ‘to help facilitate long-term growth plans’
One-year-old property finance team moves to Grosvenor Gardens
Mortgage lending ‘defies seasonal trends’ to rise in December
2018's total gross mortgage lending was nearly 4% higher than the previous year
Bridging loans became much more widespread, and a fair bit cheaper, in 2018
New data and a broker survey indicate growing demand for short-term property finance
CapitalRise reports rapid growth; plans to write ‘increasingly bigger ticket loans’
Specialist property investment platform has lent against schemes with a combined total GDV of £220m
HNW property finance firm picks the ‘best’ big-ticket mortgage deals
A selection of indicative rates and terms for a £3m property loan
Holland Park mansion project goes crowdfunding
CapitalRise is looking to raise £6.4m to help fund the development of a 13,500 sq ft grand residence on 'one of the finest streets within Prime Central London'
Enness rolls into Jersey
HNW mortgage broker continues its international expansion
Government teams up with property & finance industries to tackle fraud
NAEA Propertymark joins the Government's new Economic Crime Strategic Board