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Buy-to-Let Returns Predicted to Fall to 3.4%

The Telegraph recently reported (June 5, 2015): Britain’s biggest network of letting agents and property valuers, LSL Property Services has predicted that buy-to-let returns will be down by 62% in the next 12 months.   Total returns on buy-to-let property taking into account both rental income and capital growth will

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The Future of Marketplace Lending – Technology & Transparency

On Thursday May 28th, 2015 Proplend attended the 1st Annual European Alternative Finance and Marketplace Lending Conference. Attendees included: Blackrock, Macquarie Bank, Deutsche Bank, RBS, Asset Management and Private Equity Firms, Regulators, and Leaders in the European Alternative Finance and Marketplace Lending space.   We guestimate that approximately 30% or

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Interest Rates Remain Unchanged

Minutes from the May meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee revealed a unanimous decision to hold rates at 0.5% where they have been since March 2009.     Two members of the Committee likely to be Martin Weale and Ian McCafferty, who had been voting for an increase to 0.75%