Development finance

Aspen competes £1.13m dev exit loan

Aspen Bridging has provided a borrower with a £1,130,000 development exit loan in just...

Paragon Bank backs Essex development with £25m funding

Paragon Bank’s development finance division has provided a £25m revolving facility to refinance the...

HREF provides £4.5m development exit loan for Dorset properties

Bridging lender Hilco Real Estate Finance (HREF) has completed a development exit loan of...

Alternative Bridging Corporation secures new warehouse line

Alternative Bridging Corporation (ABC) has agreed a new funding relationship of up to £200m...

Hope Capital provides £14m funding for three deals

Hope Capital has completed three cases for a repeat borrower totalling £14m. Working with Chris...

Economic potential of UK home building revealed

In 2023, home building in England and Wales generated £53.3bn of economic output and...

Aspen provides £6.95m dev loan in five days

Aspen has completed a £6.95m light development loan at 75% LTV in five days...

Black & White Bridging secures £100m funding line

Black & White Bridging has agreed a major new funding line of £100 million. It...

CapitalRise completes £8m senior development loan

CapitalRise has closed a £8.22 million senior development loan for a residential project in...

Aspen unveils rate reductions

Aspen Bridging has reduced its rates by up to 60bps for all new applications. Flat...

West One Loans merges bridging and development finance teams

West One Loans has merged its bridging and development finance arms into a single...

Black & White Bridging appoints non-executive director

Black & White Bridging has appointed a new non-executive director (NED). Retired solicitor,...

HTB uses portfolio indemnity for £6.9m remortgage

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a complex £6.9 million remortgage for a property...

BDLA makes three executive board appointments

The Bridging & Development Lenders Association (BDLA) has announced three new appointments to its...

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Bridging the Pond: How large is the US bridging finance market, and compared to the UK?

When we first got started with LendInvest in the UK, post the financial crisis, bridging finance was a much more nascent product than it...

Passing the affordability exam

As teachers and students of various ages have spent August nervously opening exam results following years of study that will determine their ability to...

Investors are changing their approach – and lenders should too

The buy-to-let market never stands still, but the pace of change in recent years has been remarkable. The days of the so-called ‘accidental landlord’,...

Leasehold fees, specialists and the need to shop around

Leasehold properties account for around 20% of all dwellings in the UK, and while that figure may change in the future with government legislation...

Tuning into later life lending conversations

There are certain conversations in our profession that can genuinely change the course of a client’s life. Later life lending sits firmly in that...

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Rightmove warns property tax reforms could stall housing market

Rightmove has warned the government that proposed changes to property taxation risk distorting the...

Bradford retains crown as UK’s leading property hotspot

Bradford has once again been named the country’s most in-demand housing market, topping OnTheMarket’s...

Keystone reduces expat buy-to-let rates and adds new product

Keystone Property Finance has reduced rates across its expat buy-to-let range, cutting selected fixed...

Gatehouse cuts buy-to-let rental rates and eases paperwork

Gatehouse Bank has cut rental rates by 0.25% across its buy-to-let purchase plans for...