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Commercial property prices predicted to slump by up to 60%
Tuesday 6th January 2009
The investment bank, Close Brothers, has stated that UK banks could lose up to £70 billion on commercial property loans, as values continue to plummet. Since

Return of spivs and speculators as FSA ends short selling ban
Tuesday 6th January 2009
Yesterday the FSA announced that they would be lifting last autumn’s ban on short selling later this month. However, the regulator has reserved the right to

HSBC tops 'competitive lender' list
Tuesday 6th January 2009
HSBC was the most competitive lender in 2008, figures from mform.co.uk show.According to the industry group, the global bank's seeming "immunity" from the worst effects of

Nationwide sees 'biggest house price slump on record'
Tuesday 6th January 2009
House prices fell by 15.9 per cent from December 2007 to December 2008, Nationwide has said.According to the lender, the value of the typical UK property

Small firms 'under threat thanks to banks'
Monday 5th January 2009
Britain's small firms are coming under pressure due to bridging loan concerns in the present financial climate, it has been revealed.Analysis from the Forum of Private

Bridging firm donates over £2,000 to sick children
Monday 5th January 2009
One of the UK’s largest bridging loan companies, Tiuta, has donated £2444 to help buy two vital pieces of breathing equipment for the children of Great Ormond Street

Influential investor 'moving into commercial property'
Monday 5th January 2009
Phones4u founder John Caudwell has announced that he plans to move into the commercial property sector.The investor has spent £80 million over the past three months

BSA sees 'hope' in new mortgage figures
Monday 5th January 2009
There was a slight improvement in mortgage loan provision from UK building societies in November.New figures from the Building Societies Association (BSA) shows that net lending

'Affordability improving', upbeat new property study shows
Wednesday 31st December 2008
Falls in house prices are positively affecting property affordability, Halifax has suggested.According to the firm, the house price to earnings ratio has dropped from 5.84 in

Property market bounce-back predicted
Monday 29th December 2008
The commercial and domestic property markets could bottom out and begin to recover in a "make or break" 2009.This is the main finding of new analysis

FSA bans brokers for 'lack of competence'
Wednesday 24th December 2008
Two mortgage brokers have been sanctioned by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for compliance failings.Surrey-based Andrew David Bowden, who trades as Scott Jarrett Bowden and Partners,

Banks came “close to collapse” as short term funding faded
Tuesday 23rd December 2008
It has been revealed that in the second week of October, banking giants HBOS and the Royal Bank of Scotland came close to folding as short

Commercial brokers tipped for success in 2009
Tuesday 23rd December 2008
Roger Morris from short term lender Affirmative Finance has looked back over this last year and given us his inside views on what to expect in

Merry Christmas from Bridging & Commercial
Tuesday 23rd December 2008
As this is the last newsletter of 2008 everyone here at Bridging and Commercial would like to thank our readers for their continued and overwhelming support

Barclays chief sees 'shrinking' credit
Monday 22nd December 2008
The chief executive of Barclays has indicated that bridging loans and other forms of credit from banks will be constrained by the financial crisis for as

Lender scraps price forecasts on 'volatility' fears
Monday 22nd December 2008
Extreme property market volatility means that there will be no 2009 forecasts from Nationwide this year.The lender says that it will continue with its monthly house

Commercial property 'enters double-dip phase'
Monday 22nd December 2008
Falling rents from firms are worsening the commercial property slump, analysis has suggested.The IPD commercial property index suggests that values have already dropped by 25 per

Property prices to slump, experts predict
Monday 22nd December 2008
House prices will fall by another ten per cent in 2009, Hometrack has forecast.According to the property experts, the value of the typical property has dropped

Return of 95 per cent LTVs
Thursday 18th December 2008
  A 95 per cent loan to value (LTV) mortgage has been reintroduced to the market, in a potential sign that the credit freeze has begun to

Bridging company warns businesses to be “very shrewd next year”
Thursday 18th December 2008
Finance director of Bridgingloans.com, Ryneveld van der Horst, sums up the past year for the bridging sector and looks ahead to 2009:  “I’ve worked in the financial

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