Bridging

Reward Finance Group appoints BDM

Reward Finance Group has appointed Simon Micklethwaite as business development director (BDM) for Yorkshire...

Shawbrook’s latest results show Covid impact

Shawbrook Bank's pre-tax profit for the fist six- months of 2020 totalled £5.9 million,...

Omni Property Finance appoints BDM

Jaxon Stevens has joined Omni Property Finance Limited as business development manager. Stevens joins the...

The Right Loan teams up with Air Group

Answers in Retirement Group (Air Group) has partnered with The Right Loan. Users of...

LendInvest funds £10m bridge

LendInvest has financed a £10 million bridging finance loan after the borrower ran into...

Bridging provider sees 100% boost in business

Roma Finance has reported a 100% increase in active cases since the Covid-19 lockdown...

Boost for bridger with £1m+ cases

Bridging lender Hope Capital has reported that new cases for loans in excess of...

Covid-19: Over 5,500 free meals provided by bridger

MFS and Benares provide over 5,500 free meals to support NHS staff and Emergency...

New identity for Promise Solutions

Promise Solutions has rebranded the business as Promise Money. The packager and master broker is...

Shawbrook returns to partial pre-Covid criteria

Shawbrook’s property division has confirmed that it has returned to some of its pre-pandemic...

Funding 365 unveils development finance product

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

OFFA joins ASTL

OFFA has become the latest provider to join the Association of Short Term Lenders...

Bridging lender moves into 75% LTV space

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has launched new rates for its bridging loans, now offering...

Court holdups worrying bridging providers

68% of bridging lenders are concerned about the capacity of the courts to deal...
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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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Regulation

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...
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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...
Later Life

LiveMore broadens lending criteria to support more complex borrowers

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

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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