Sharon Van Loenen

Podcast: The later life lending sector – FamilyBS & Mortgage Solutions

Family Building Society’s Head of Intermediary Sales, Darren Deacon joined Anna Sagar, Deputy Editor at Mortgage Solutions, Clifton Mortgages’ Edward Payne, and Brilliant Solutions’ Michael Craig to discuss the opportunities in the later life lending sector, and the need for regulator and lender innovation in this space. Watch Part 1 & 2 here:

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Kensington- Mid LTVs are here!

Just in case you missed this- we have introduced some mid-LTV products, in  our range to try and support customers that have LTV’s that meet in the middle. A customer with 87.5% LTV for example, that meets the eligibility of the range,  will get a cheaper rate than the 90% LTV product meaning we’re trying

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Staged Income is on the Rise.

Connect - Compliance Update

So, what do we mean by staged income, or even inflated income, and are these both types of fraud? Staged income is the process of falsely presenting a job that doesn’t exist. This could be by creating fake payslips to make it look like someone has a job that doesn’t exist or amending bank statements

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Mercantile Trust – A new client success story!

Our client had taken out a bridging loan with the intention to expand their business building by adding a second storey and transforming it into flats. However, unforeseen planning restrictions and construction challenges arose, meaning the project would not be finished in time to settle the bridging loan as planned. Therefore, an urgent extension was needed, and our team was ready

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Kensington spotlight – The Evolution of the Self-Employed Landscape

Did you manage to catch Kensington’s webinar on ‘The Evolution of the Self-Employed Landscape’? Houseful’s Richard Donnell is optimistic for the year ahead and suggests that there is 12% increase of sales agreed when compared to pre-pandemic data Fred Hicks explored IPSE’s latest IR35 spotlight report, highlighting up to 63% of contractors are reluctant to

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