Development finance

Right DA Club outlines 2024 webinar programme

The Right DA Club has published details of its online webinar programme for 2024. ...

Aldermore provides £47m refinance loan to Leeds property firm

Aldermore Bank has provided a subsidiary of the Pickard Properties Group with a £47m...

Tony Hall expands remit at Saffron BS

Saffron Building Society has revealed that Tony Hall will be taking on an expanded...

New specialist real estate advisory business launches

Mortimer Street Capital has launched as a specialist real estate advisory business providing clients...

Lloyds Bank joins FIBA lender panel

The Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA) has announced the appointment of Lloyds Bank...

Brightstar partners with LIBF to deliver CPSP

The Brightstar Group is adopting a group-wide strategy to support team members achieve the...

Alternative Bridging offers refunded valuation and legal fees

Alternative Bridging Corporation has introduced its 'Winter Promotion' offering to refund valuation and lender...

Enra Specialist Finance reports record trading results in 2023

Enra Specialist Finance, the parent company of specialist lender West One Loans and specialist...

Sharp rise in time and cost of planning permission for SMEs

Research commissioned by the Land, Planning and Development Federation (LPDF) and United Trust Bank...

Aspen completes £2.8m development exit

Aspen Bridging has completed a £2.8m development exit bridge on a 14-unit development of...

Planning and development changes offer new year opportunities

The end of the year is not only a time for reflection, but for...

Investec provides £15.6m development loan

Investec Real Estate has provided Moorfield Group, a UK-focused real estate fund manager, with...

Assetz Capital commits to further Northern Ireland investment

Assetz Capital has appointed Ciaran McGivern as relationship director for Northern Ireland following growth...

Silbury Finance strengthens senior management team

Silbury Finance, the Oaktree Capital Management-backed residential development lender, has strengthened its senior leadership...

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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...