Wealth & Finance International - February 2017

Wealth & Finance International 6 Workshop to Highlight Ways of Releasing Funds for Affordable Housing Finance and legal teams working in the housing sector wanting to learn more about addressing lenders’ concerns regarding security risk on housing association properties can attend a workshop taking place at the Housing Finance Conference. The workshop is a collaboration between Nick Worman of Bruton Knowles, The Housing Finance Corporation, legal experts from Maclays Marray and Spens LLP and a legal expert who works for one of the UKs largest housing associations and is taking place at 1.00pm on 22 March at the ACC Exhibition centre in Liverpool. Each of the panellists will show how they form an essential part of the due diligence process taking on both legal and non-legal perspectives so that issues can be resolved in a timely and cost effective way. Nick Worman of Bruton Knowles said: “We’ve run this workshop a num- ber of times in other parts of the country. It’s always been well attended and proved to be a popular event with those that have come along so we’re pleased to bring it to the NHF’s pre-eminent housing finance event. “It will demonstrate how lender, borrower and their professional teams can work collaboratively and come up with creative solutions to security risk should for example it becomes difficult to obtain the required legal evidence. “There’s an old saying which says give a man a fish and he eats one meal, teach him to fish and he never goes hungry. So, by giving borrowers a solution, they might hold us to that one answer but teach them to think outside the box and they will come up with lots of solutions themselves!” The charging workshop is to take place at 1pm on Wednesday 22 March at the Housing Finance Conference. For further information please visit finance.housing.org.uk Wealth & Finance Inter ational | News