Bridging

Impact Specialist Finance and UTB complete bridge for later life borrowers

Specialist broker and distributor, Impact Specialist Finance, and United Trust Bank (UTB) have completed on...

Busy June for Aspen Bridging

Aspen Bridging approved £294m of deals across 382 cases last month. The figures are up...

Signature Property Finance added to Complete FS panel

Short-term finance provider, Signature Property Finance, has been appointed to the panel of Complete...

Nick Jones joins Roma Finance as commercial director

Roma Finance has announced the appointment of Nick Jones to its board as commercial...

Hope Capital sees June enquiry spike

Hope Capital has reported a stronger June performance than for the same month in...

BFS supports online property auction purchases

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) is supporting the auction property markets move online, as the...

Roma Finance unveils new bridging deals at 70% LTV

Roma Finance has launched new bridging products at 70% loan to value (LTV) and...

Castle Trust launches ‘Covid-19 level 3’ criteria

Castle Trust Bank has introduced new criteria which is says is in response to...

Roma Finance expands management team

Roma Finance has appointed Deborah Chaplain to the new position of head of customer...

Octane completes bridge-to-let in nine days

Octane Capital has completed a £2.6m bridge-to-let loan in nine days to a client...

ASTL introduces member newsletter

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has published its first member newsletter to...

Trio of promotions at Octane Capital

Octane Capital has promoted three of its senior team. Liam Lawlor has been promoted from...

First 4 Bridging adds Hampshire Trust Bank to panel

First 4 Bridging (F4B) has announced the addition of Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) to...

Hope Capital broadens acceptable valuation type

Hope Capital will now allow a range of valuation types. Having previously required a full...

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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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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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