Bridging

Aspen completes complex refurb bridge for Cambridge development

Aspen Bridging has completed a complex £2.2m refurbishment loan for a developer using two...

Silbury Finance provides £39m site acquisition loan

Silbury Finance, the Oaktree Capital Management-backed development lender, has provided a £39 million senior...

Hope Capital offers 80% LTV on medium & heavy refurbishment

Hope Capital has revamped its residential refurbishment offering by now providing up to 80%...

Clever Lending arranges £1.4m regulated bridging loan

Clever Lending has recently secured a £1.1m regulated bridging facility for a broker’s client...

Mint Property Finance reports record quarter for enquiries

Mint Property Finance has reported a record number of enquiries received in Q1. The specialist...

BFS to move into Scotland

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has outlined plans to expand into Scotland as part of...

Hope Capital makes portfolio team promotion

Hope Capital has promoted Christy Alokan to the position of senior portfolio case manager. Alokan...

Paragon provides £2.5m for 10-home Northamptonshire development

Paragon Bank’s development finance division has provided a £2.5 million finance package to support...

Impact Specialist Finance unveils semi-exclusive 80% net LTV refurb bridging deal

Impact Specialist Finance has launched a new light and heavy refurbishment bridging product available...

Understanding the benefits of second charge bridging loans

In the current volatile economic climate, concerns over soaring energy prices, higher borrowing costs...

TML completes complex buy-to-let cases “in a matter of weeks”

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has completed two cases for a landlord who needed a...

Assetz Capital provides £2.83m development facility

Assetz Capital has funded a loan of £2.83 million for a new residential development...

Humphrey & Gray joins ASTL

Property maintenance specialists, Humphrey & Gray, has become the latest professional organisation to join...

Hope Capital to fix rates on loans above £500k

Specialist short-term lender, Hope Capital, will be holding rates on all deals over £500k...

COMMENT

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

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...

Latest news

Wealth at Work names Mark Duckworth as next chief executive

Wealth at Work has appointed former Schroders Personal Wealth and Openwork chief executive Mark...

Mortgage labels risk putting older borrowers off advice

Terms such as "later life lending" and "equity release" risk creating barriers between borrowers...

Advisers face pressure to bring families into retirement planning

Advice firms risk weakening long-term client relationships by failing to involve partners and beneficiaries...

Bank Rate held at 3.75% as energy shock raises prospect of future increase

The Bank of England has kept Bank Rate at 3.75%, but warned that persistent...

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