The Bridging Brokers Blog

The Bridging Brokers Blog

Our bridging loan blog is here to inform and keep visitors up to date with the latest news in the fast moving bridging finance market place.

The Latest Blogs By The Bridging Loan Broker

Bridging Loan - Market Update

More Mortgages, House Price Increases - Good news at last!

With more mortgages available, quarter on quarter house price rises and a forecast of a small year on year rise, is this the beginning of the end of the credit crunch!

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Has the Buy to Let market bottomed out?

What does the increase in BTL mortgage products mean for the investment sector?

Any increase in product availability can only be positive for both buy to let investors, bridging loan lenders and brokers such as ourselves.

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More Bad News For Bridging Lenders

Only 2,983 Mortgages Available!

Trigold the specialist mortgage product information provider to IFA's and brokers in their march release show that the number of mortgage products has dropped by nearly 20% since January 2009.

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Non Status Bridging Loans

Have Non-Status Bridging Loans Disappeared?

In an earlier blog we asked whether a "closed bridge" was still available. With the continuing decline in the general mortgage market can bridging lenders still offer a truly non-status loan?

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Bridging Lender Reduces Maximum Loan

Evidence of further Credit Tightening in the Market Place!

In the bridging lenders news release it stated that it is still lending, but "activity levels are significantly down on previous years".

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Do Closed Bridging Loans Still Exist?

Do Bridging Lenders actually offer a "Closed Bridge" service anymore?

It has always been the case that most bridging deals are written on an open "basis". However the days when one could get a lower price for a "closed" deal have all but gone - and here's why!

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