While a home loan is provided for the purpose of buying a property or land, a business loan may be used for many purposes relating to the operation of a business. Just some examples include purchasing capital equipment and buying vehicles, property or technology.

When a person takes out a business loan, the lender is likely to require some kind of security for the loan.

The Capita Finance Solutions (Capita) leadership team have this week enabled all operations to work remotely if the need arises to ensure services to clients remain uninterrupted.

Speaking with Capita General Manager, Gill McLean, she stated, “Last year we rolled out a series of new technologies to enable our support team, brokers and financial planners the ease of collaboration from their own offices, with access to industry updates and online forms on the go, this has enabled us to switch to an online business model at a time like this ensuring we protect the safety and well being of our teams, clients, partners and community whilst ensuring minimal disruption to our clients.”

Real estate makes more billionaires than any other asset class. But what makes it such a worthwhile investment?

The answer, according to Rocket Property Group Founder Ian Hosking Richards, is leverage. Mr Richards explained what leverage is all about.