Development finance

Octane provides 1,000th loan

Octane Capital has completed its 1,000th loan since launching in 2017. The lender said the...

Record quarter for Octane Capital

Octane Capital has revealed that the third quarter of 2020 was its biggest quarter...

New lower rates from Roma

Roma Finance has reduced rates while increasing LTVs and loan amounts across its product...

Glenhawk unveils free valuation offer

Specialist property lender Glenhawk has launched a free valuation offering. It also does not...

Funding 365 improves light development product pricing

Funding 365 has reduced the pricing on its light development product, with now starting...

Roma Finance unveils new development finance and commercial solutions

Roma Finance has launched a new 'ground up' development finance product as well as...

Optimum Commercial appoints national sales director

Optimum Commercial has appointed Chris Duckworth to the position of national sales director. Duckworth (pictured) has...

Enterprise Finance adds Roma Finance to panel

Enterprise Finance has added bridging, development and buy-to-let lender Roma Finance to its panel. ...

Glenhawk appoints CFO and finance director

Glenhawk has announced the appointments of Andrew Townsend as chief financial officer (CFO) and...

Aspen’s desktop valuation saves development exit

Aspen Bridging has completed a £150,000 development exit bridging loan on a remote property...

Funding 365 unveils development finance product

Bridging lender Funding 365 has moved into development finance with the launch of its...

Two new hires for UTB

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed a new director and manager in its development...

LendInvest unveils new structured property finance team

LendInvest has launched a new structured property finance team in order to provide a...

BFS backs first-time developer

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has provided support to a fledgling developer, providing a £350,000...

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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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