Development finance

Martin Gilsenan joins Iron Bridge Finance board

Iron Bridge Finance has announced the immediate appointment of Martin Gilsenan to its main...

Boutique property developer secures £4.7m Shawbrook facility

Shawbrook Bank has provided boutique property development company NestEast with a £4.7m development finance...

Cabot Square Capital takes majority stake in MSP Capital

Cabot Square Capital has acquired a majority stake in MSP Capital, a specialist provider...

The Saffron offers smaller development loans

The Saffron Building Society has unveiled a new, smaller development finance loan for people...

Roma Finance launches in Scotland

Roma Finance is now offering introducers in Scotland access to its bridging and development...

F4B restructures as sales director leaves

Finance 4 Business (F4B) has announced a restructuring of its leadership team and the...

Brightstar partners with The Right Mortgage & Protection Network

Brightstar Financial has joined up with The Right Mortgage & Protection Network to distribute...

New development finance guide published for SME house builders

A new guide by UK Finance and the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has...

LendInvest launches Bridge to Term transition service

LendInvest has cut its rates across its bridging product range and introduced a new...

MFB for Intermediaries launches

Mortgages for Business has launched MFB for Intermediaries as part of a refresh of...

Octopus Property provides £12.7 million development loan

Specialist property lender Octopus Property has agreed to provide Saudi Arabian investor, Snabil Limited,...

Three new BDMs at Octopus Property

Octopus Property has announced three new appointments to its regional sales teams. New business development...

Shawbrook hits development finance milestone

Shawbrook Bank has achieved £250m of lending to small and medium-sized property developers across...

Oblix Capital completes £2m development loan

Oblix Capital, the London based specialist property lender, has completed a £2.04 million development loan,...

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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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The FCA published research on 27 August showing that 56% of 18- to 40-year-olds who hold or are considering investments say they trust AI...

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Rents set to rise by up to 5% as supply falls

UK rental growth is accelerating again as higher mortgage rates keep would-be first-time buyers...

Buy-to-let company formations fall as landlord incorporation boom slows

The number of new buy-to-let companies being established has fallen this year as the...

Mortgage sector wellbeing improves but burnout risks persist

Mental wellbeing across the mortgage industry has improved over the past year, although long...

Cyber attacks on property businesses rise 17% as hackers target client data

Cyber attacks against UK property services businesses increased by 17% last year as agents...

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