With a record number of mortgages maturing, many of your clients may benefit from remortgaging. To help you identify new remortgage business opportunities in your area, we’ve updated our hotspot map. This uses nationwide data on maturing fixed-rate mortgages to show you the potential volume of remortgage business near you. Find out more at Scottish […]
Ian Boden, Sales Director, LendInvest It’s been a rollercoaster couple of years for the world of property investment, with a succession of tax and regulatory changes that investors and their brokers have had to get their heads around. But for all of the discussions about stamp duty, portfolio landlords and underwriting rules, the fundamentals of […]
Ian Boden, Sales Director, LendInvest Location is one of the most important factors for any property investor to consider when looking at expanding their portfolio. You want to buy in the right place, somewhere with a steady supply of tenants and which can deliver strong rental yields and/or good capital growth over the longer term. […]
Without good marketing to back up your business, being approached by a new client can be akin to asking them to find a needle in a haystack
By Jennifer Gilchrist, Product Lead, Design Imagine the scene: in the build-up to the busiest time of year at Santa Corp. offices, Santa Claus has slipped on the ice and suffered a serious injury. He’s desperate to get back to work, but the orders from Doctor Elf are firm — no work for at least […]
The Finance (No.2) Act 2017 has passed into law — we look at the impact on the Money Purchase Annual Allowance
Steve Webb, Director of Policy and External Communications, reflects on all things pensions in 2017
By Matthew Tooth, chief commercial officer, LendInvest The growth of the specialist has been impossible to ignore over the past couple of years, but recent research by the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (Imla) has made clear the increasing role of specialism in the mortgage market. Imla found that lending by specialists had grown by an […]
Along with global legal practice Eversheds Sutherland, we look at why employers may want to do more than simply meet the legal minimum in terms of their auto-enrolment duties. Our new policy paper — ‘Automatic enrolment and the law – how far do employers’ duties extend?’ — summarises current minimum duties of employers to enrol […]
By Jamie Clark, Business Development Manager Our latest research looks to understand the key influences on millennials’ future long-term pension savings. Here are our top five takeaways to consider when developing a strategy for advising them. 1. Every millennial is different. One thing that came through loud and clear in our research was that pigeon-holing […]
By Steve Larkin, director of development finance, LendInvest Last September we launched our first LendInvest Property Development Academy. A year on, it’s fair to say that the response has been overwhelming. We knew that there was a strong desire from many on the fringes of the property market to become developers in their own right, […]
Amanda Docherty, Senior Marketing Consultant, Royal London I’ve just returned from a mini-break in Tenerife. Twenty girls on a hen weekend, so you can imagine there was a fair bit of eating, drinking and dancing. Although we did squeeze in a water park, boat trip and paddle boarding. It’s all about the balance! There were a […]