HSBC reveals £141bn mortgage loan book in H1 results

Kuwait Finance House (KFH) spent 2025 reshaping its private banking and wealth management (PBWM) business around a simple proposition: that affluent Islamic clients should no longer have to compromise between sophisticated global wealth management capabilities and strict adherence to Shariah principles. That ambition underpinned a broad transformation programme, during which KFH consolidated previously fragmented operations…

In This Article Here’s a common, nasty-surprise scenario many beginner investors have to confront: An investor with a few properties makes a move to expand their portfolio. They have an excellent credit score and are confident that they’ll have no trouble getting future loans. Except that the lender denies them financing.  What happened? Actually, the…

A rendering of the planned Austin, Texas, convention center, for which bonds are being sold this week.City of Austin Austin launches long-term financing for a convention center this week with a $663 million revenue bond sale as it joins other big Texas cities in the pursuit of bigger and better venues.  Processing Content The deal,…

When work stopped at MetroLoft’s residential conversion of the former Pfizer headquarters, real estate held its breath.  Was this a one-off event caused by a one-off error that led to some of the columns starting to buckle? Or would this cascade into something bigger facing the overall office-to-residential phenomenon that has reenergized much of Manhattan’s…

For many Australians, fully offsetting a mortgage is the ultimate financial achievement. After years of disciplined saving, making extra repayments, and carefully managing their budget, reaching the point where savings completely offset home loan interest can feel just as rewarding as buying the property itself. The question then becomes: what to do next? …

In This Article Leverage was always the love language for real estate investors. It was the principle on which the BRRRR strategy was based, and fortunes were made.  However, since the dramatic rise in interest rates post-COVID-19 pandemic, the golden strategy has started to lose some of its shine. Now, even the most happy-go-lucky investors…