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The Home Is Not the Receivable: How Ijarah Turns Property Finance Into an Institutional Asset

Egypt’s Nawy Now and Synergy Capital have closed a second EGP 633 million issuance of an Ijarah-based fixed-income fund, taking the programme above EGP 1 billion in less than a year. Nawy says the fund buys mortgage receivables from its home-finance portfolio, freeing balance-sheet capacity for new financing. The structure is a useful reminder that property, the Ijarah contract, the customer’s payment obligation, the receivable, the portfolio transferred to a fund and the investor’s fund...

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One Property, Two Lenders: Why Collateral Needs an Identity, Not Just Documents

he collapse of UK mortgage lender Market Financial Solutions has put an old secured-lending problem under a modern spotlight: documents can describe collateral without proving that the same economic asset has not already been pledged elsewhere. Allegations of double pledging, disputes over mortgage registration and a new Solicitors Regulation Authority investigation into work connected with MFS show why loan identity, collateral identity, security registration, priority and professional attestat

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Energy Performance Is Becoming Credit Information: What Mortgage Lenders Need to Record

The ECB’s July 2026 bank lending survey shows that energy performance and physical climate risk are already influencing housing credit standards and demand. For lenders and asset managers, the practical lesson is that a mortgage-related asset needs a current, source-backed record of the loan, property, valuation, energy performance, physical risk and later changes—not only the original mortgage documents.

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