Top Development Finance Property Options for 2025
Explore the best development finance property options in the UK for 2025. This guide covers leading lenders, market trends, and how to secure funding for your projects.
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All the latest news about property funding in the UK. Bringing updates about commercial mortgages, buy to let mortgages and property development finance; mostly directly sourced from the industry press.
Round up of property funding news for August 2018
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 …
Maximum Loan to Value For Interest Only Mortgages Start to Tumble
The Nationwide Building Society is among a growing number of lenders slashing its interest-only maximum loan to value for residential lending. In March the mainstream lender reduced its maximum LTV for interest only loans from 75% to 50%. Martyn Dyson, head of mortgages at Nationwide, says: “A number of major lenders have recently restricted their …
Do Interest Only Mortgages Make Commercial Sense?
There is a long standing debate within the residential mortgage market around the viability of interest only mortgages. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) have made no secret of their distrust of lenders who rely on interest only lending. However, some consider that this is a consumer driven product and it is quite likely that most …
Buy to let lending increasing
According to figures just released the number of Buy to Let mortgages being approved has increased.
Property prices up and down – a quick round up
Over the last few weeks there has been the usual flurry of reports about the state of the property market in England. Here’s a quick round up of the land registry’s take compared with the Nationwide and Halifax reports. Land registry index Apparently London was the only area to see property values increase last year, …