All posts by Malcolm Jones

Are you a Mortgage Prisoner?
A Mortgage Prisoner is someone who cannot switch to another product or to a new lender for their residential mortgage, despite being up to date with their payments. They could be stuck with a lender...

Initiatives government could take to support landlords and...
Jack Bertolone, Operations Director at Brooklands Commercial Finance, discusses with Kate Faulkner the impact of the pandemic on the UK housing market and what other initiatives the government could...

Implications of mortgage payment holidays, BBL & CBILS...
Jack Bertolone, Operations Director at Brooklands Commercial Finance, discusses with Kate Faulkner the impact of the pandemic on the UK housing market and the implication of mortgage payment holidays,

Mortgage Market Post-Lockdown – Kate Faulkner and Jack...
Jack Bertolone, Operations Director at Brooklands Commercial Finance, discusses with Kate Faulkner the impact of the pandemic on the UK housing market and the availability of mortgages.
Kate Faulkner...

Post-Lockdown Buy to Let Market – Ltd co. and Personal...
With the lockdown caused by Covid-19, we saw the UK property market effectively shut down for a period of two months, with only essential moves taking place. Lenders responded by cutting LTVs,

UK Housing Market – Past, Present and Future...
Pre-lockdown
There were a number of years where the housing market suffered due to the uncertainty around Brexit and more recently the general election. At the end of 2019 the Conservative Party...

Time to take advantage of record low Interest Rates and...
During the last few weeks there has been a rush of borrowers taking advantage of all-time low residential interest rates. Due to the impact of Covid-19, the Bank of England has taken the unprecedented...

Not all Doom and Gloom...
The Good News
Brooklands Commercial Finance is fully operational and assisting Property 118 clients in these unprecedented times.
We are currently working with lenders that have replaced their...

Coronavirus Business Disruption Loan Scheme – We can...
Has your business been interrupted by coronvirus? Have you experienced lost or deferred revenue? disruption to your cashlfow? We can help.
In the 2020 budget, the chancellor announced a new scheme...

Is it time to move into property refurbishment?
Many landlords are facing up to the Government’s onslaught of the buy to let market which has seen their profits slashed over the past three years as tax changes take effect and new legislation like...