Borro, which lends against people’s own assets such as fine art and jewellery, says it now has over 2,000 intermediaries signed up. Of these, 23% are mortgage brokers...

Building societies are continuing to launch highly competitive deals to the intermediary sector. Leeds Building Society’s latest is a 95% mortgage aimed at first-time buyers wanting loans up to £300,000...

Complete FS, an intermediary specialist distributor, has added InterBay Commercial to its panel of lenders.   InterBay, part of OneSavings Bank, relaunched in 2012 and has just launched a series of high net worth products as well as new price reductions...

Short-term lender Omni Capital has launched a new longer-term product for residential borrowers. Omni says that demand from intermediaries was the main driver behind the new product's design...

Young people remain pessimistic about their chances of getting on the property ladder, with only a third prepared to save for a deposit for more than three years before abandoning their plans...

Leeds Building Society has been busy doing deals with estate agency groups. It has launched two exclusives for the LSL group – owners of Reeds Rains and Your Move – available to Appointed Representatives in networks First Complete and Pink and to directly Authorised Advisers using TMA or the Pink mortgage club...

Applications for secured loans are more likely to be agreed than for remortgages, it has been claimed. Intermediary secured loan specialist Smart Money Loans’ (SML) said that the secured loan route offers a greater chance of success for clients looking to raise capital than a remortgage...

Brokerage business Just Mortgages, owned by Spicerhaart which has just lost a costly litigation battle,  is to recruit an additional 25 mortgage advisers...