Bridging

Fiduciam expects further £200m of CBILS loan requests

Short-term lender Fiduciam expects to receive at least another £200 million of requests for Coronavirus...

Funding 365 unveils stepped bridge from 0.59%

Funding 365 has launched a new residential bridging product with a stepped interest rate...

LendInvest expands legal panel

LendInvest has appointed UK law firm Birketts to its legal panel for buy-to-let and...

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...

Catalyst ups bridging LTVs

Catalyst Property Finance has made changes to its bridging lending criteria. The criteria changes are...

Glenhawk unveils free valuation offer

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

Signature appoints national development manager

Signature Property Finance has appointed Paul Tromans to a dual role within the business,...

First 4 Bridging opens intermediary support centre

First 4 Bridging (F4B) has expanded its proposition with the opening of a Manchester-based...

Jon Hall to leave Masthaven Bank in 2021

Jon Hall, chief commercial officer and Deputy CEO of Masthaven Bank, will to leave...

Catalyst to pay enhanced bridging procuration fees

Catalyst Property Finance has launched 'PROC-tober', an initiative for intermediaries which pays an enhanced...

Hope Capital appoints head of portfolio management

Jemma Wood has been promoted by bridging lender Hope Capital to the position of...

Four-fifths of brokers ‘ready’ for Covid second wave

United Trust Bank has revealed that 81% of property and commercial finance brokers who...

Precise Mortgages revamps bridging range

Precise Mortgages has launched a new bridging finance with improved LTVs and increased maximum loan...

COMMENT

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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FCA looks to widen mortgage access with proposed lending reforms

First-time buyers, older borrowers and the self-employed could benefit from a more flexible approach...

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...

LiveMore broadens lending criteria to support more complex borrowers

Specialist lender LiveMore has expanded its lending criteria, reducing the time it looks back...

Legal Services Board joins government AI growth initiative

The Legal Services Board is joining the government’s new AI Growth Lab, a scheme...

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