Commercial Mortgages Explained

If you’re a business owner, you’ve probably heard of commercial mortgages, but you may not be entirely sure what they are or how they work. This blog post will give you a crash course in all things commercial mortgages. By the end, you’ll know whether or not a commercial mortgage is right for your business. …

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Round up of property funding news for August 2018

Returns for buy-to-let investors soar as private rents increase

The summer is typically a quiet time for property transactions and property funding news generally. Brexit never far from people’s minds with close attention being paid to interest rates and property transactions. Countrywide rescue agreed Countrywide has raised £140m from shareholders following approval for the purchase of new shares. The breakdown of how the money …

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Lending Criteria to be relaxed ?

Thousands of buy-to-let borrowers with tracker mortgages hit with 2% rate hikes

John Phillips is the financial services director at Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward and in a recent article for Mortgage Introducer he makes an interesting point about lending criteria. There are plenty of positive headlines in the news about the return of growth to the UK economy and even enough good house price data to spark …

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