Development finance

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...

Assetz Capital reappoints relationship director in Scottish team

Assetz Capital has reappointed Geoff O’Brien as relationship director, based in Scotland. O’Brien (pictured, left)...

United Trust Bank and Iron Bridge Finance back £15m redevelopment

United Trust Bank (UTB) and Iron Bridge Finance are jointly supporting the redevelopment of...

West One Loans completes its largest ever development finance transaction

West One Loans has completed on a £31.2 million development finance facility, the largest...

Paragon adds Build-to-Rent to development finance offering

Paragon Bank’s development finance division will now provide finance of up to £35 million...

Investec provides £12m loan for modular PBSA development

Investec Real Estate has provided Stelling Properties Group with an £11.85 million loan to...

Homeworking still driving property development decisions

New research from Shawbrook has found that homeworking is continuing to drive development decisions...

Assetz Capital supports Bradford PBSA development

Assetz Capital is providing a development facility to deliver a 169-unit PBSA scheme in...

21Finance launches specialist packager service

21Finance has unveiled a packager service dedicated to the broker market concentrating on whole...

COMMENT

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Why you need to know what sits behind the average review score

There’s a funny thing about review scores. The better they are, the less likely we are to question them. If a company is sitting at...

The new Chancellor wants to remove barriers to growth; he should start with housing

There was probably a degree of unintended irony in the Treasury choosing to call the Chancellor, John Healey’s, first major market ‘intervention’ his ‘Growth...

Brokers are losing the attention battle 1,000 to 3

Take a client you placed on a 5-year fix last year. Over the life of that deal, their bank is now planning to contact...

Triple lock or no triple lock? That is not the question

The debate over the State Pension triple lock has returned. But perhaps the more important question is what the debate tells us about the...

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Target Group posts record client satisfaction score

Target Group has reported its highest client satisfaction score to date, six months after...

Four-month fall in sales agreed signals weaker mortgage market

Mortgage lenders face a potentially weaker final quarter after property sales agreed fell by...

HSBC to raise residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates

HSBC UK is increasing mortgage rates across much of its residential and buy-to-let range...

Cumberland expands school money workshops into second year

The Cumberland Building Society is extending its financial education programme for primary school children...

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