What is leading the news this week? Well, to me it seems to be tax and Europe. Since the world woke up to the fact that everyone was spending more than they could afford and the governments around the globe were forced to bail out the financial system a sharp focus has gone on the inequities of the tax system. [Read more...]
Kit’s Blog-Focus on peer-to-peer lending
13th May, 2013 By
Welcome to this week’s blog – I hope everyone enjoyed a nice, long Bank Holiday weekend and it was certainly pleasant to see the sun make a long-overdue appearance for most of the country. [Read more...]
Director charged in £2m commercial mortgage fraud
13th May, 2013 By
A director and his accomplice are accused of scamming lenders out of £2 million as part of an elaborate commercial mortgage fraud, reports Cambrian News Online. [Read more...]
Dual Representation: Right or Wrong
13th May, 2013 By
At the heart of the bridging industry, remains an issue which continues to cause a stir amongst the biggest lenders in the market. [Read more...]
Kit’s Blog- Inspiring Success
8th May, 2013 By
Welcome back to my weekly blog and can you believe that we are already in May? This year is quite literally flying by and what a fantastic month we have had here at Brightstar, having completed on not only our largest bridging loan to date, but also smashing all targets and records in the process. Thank you to everyone that continues to support us. [Read more...]
Kit’s Blog-Facing the economic Armageddon
29th April, 2013 By
Can you cast your minds back to the time when we were in fear of North Korea starting World War III? When the US was beefing up anti-missile defences and foreigners were being urged to leave the peninsula? [Read more...]
Kit’s Blog-Refurbishment Finance Secrets
22nd April, 2013 By
Following on from last week’s blog, where I covered development loans, this week I wish to switch focus to the closely related property refurbishment loan. [Read more...]
Kit’s Blog-Development finance secrets
15th April, 2013 By
Over the next two weeks, I want to focus on development and refurbishment finance, areas in which we are seeing more and more enquiries of late.
Past experience and a proven track record are a must. Applicants without experience will struggle to find funding, unless they have particular financial strength and strong assets. [Read more...]
Kit’s Blog-Masters of the Universe
2nd April, 2013 By
Am I the only one that is struggling to discern any kind of logic in the actions of the powers that be? We are now five-and-a-half years into the ‘credit crunch’ and as the biggest economic shock since the Great Depression you would hope that the world’s finest minds would be working feverishly on getting us back to some sort of normality. But to me there seems to be a lot of looking the other way, keeping fingers crossed and generally hoping that things will work out for the best. [Read more...]
