Bridging

UTB pairs with Homes England to fund SME builders

United Trust Bank (UTB) and Homes England, the government’s housing delivery agency, have announced...

2020 bridging completions down 28%

Latest figures compiled by auditors from data provided by members of the Association of...

Aspen appoints head of sales

Aspen Bridging has appointed Ian Miller-Hawes to the newly created role of head of...

Sirius and Miragon in development finance partnership

Sirius Property Finance has teamed up with Miragon Investments and lender, Hilltop Credit Partners,...

Hope Capital launches commercial collection

Hope Capital has unveiled its Nineties Collection for commercial property. The collection consists of two...

First 4 Bridging unveils network proposition

Specialist packager, First 4 Bridging (F4B), has launched the F4B Network. The form says its...

The Dudley joins MCI Mortgage Club

The Dudley Building Society has become the latest lender to join MCI Mortgage Club’s panel. The...

London Credit relaunches auction product

London Credit has relaunched its auction finance product, where an offer can be issued...

Glenhawk poaches Pritchard from Precise

Glenhawk has appointed Jamie Pritchard to the newly created role of director of sales. Pritchard...

Change in January second charge criteria searches

Knowledge Bank's latest monthly criteria index shows the second charge market saw the biggest...

Hope Capital moves into the Eighties

Bridging lender, Hope Capital, has launched the Eighties Collection, consisting of two new bridging loan...

Aspen offers new ‘rapid’ desktop product

Aspen Bridging has reduced its stepped rate to 0.44%, its flat rate to 0.74%...

Smart Money relaunches buy-to-let proposition

Cheshire-based specialist distributor, Smart Money, has unveiled a new offering for introducers. Having previously focussed on...

Roma Finance and Loans Warehouse complete complex auction deal

Roma Finance and Loans Warehouse have partnered to complete a complicated back-to-back auction purchase. Roma...

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The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

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NatWest strengthens broker support with intermediary team expansion

NatWest has expanded its intermediary leadership team with the creation of two new corporate...

LMS chief executive Nick Chadbourne to step down

LMS has announced that Nick Chadbourne is to step down as chief executive after...

Mortgage commitments rise despite weaker lending volumes, Bank of England data shows

New mortgage commitments increased in the first quarter of 2026 even as completed lending...

MPs call for stamp duty reform to help first-time buyers

A cross-party group of MPs has called for a major review of stamp duty...

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