Bridging

OSB moves to 70% LTV ceiling on BTL and residential

OneSavings Bank has announced "enhanced" lending options. Precise Mortgages recently extended its range of products to...

MFS: we’ve lent £18m during lockdown

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has completed 22 bridging loans during the Covid-19 lockdown period,...

UTB completes bridge in six working days despite lockdown

United Trust Bank has completed a bridging loan in six working days, despite the...

Four senior appointments at new short-term lender

Short-term lender, Atelier Capital Partners, has announced four senior hires into its credit and...

Roma re-enters market with AVM and desktop valuations

Roma Finance has re-launched back into the market with an AVM product and a...

MFS arranges £500k bridging loan during lockdown

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has completed a £500,000 bridging loan to help a client...

UTB launches automatic ID verification sharing

United Trust Bank's ID verification information can be automatically shared with the bridging customer’s...

Aspen Bridging maintains pre-Covid property valuations

Aspen Bridging has declared that it will lend on pre Covid-19 property values. The bridging...

MFS teams up with restaurant to support NHS workers

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has partnered with fine-dining Indian restaurant Benares, to provide free...

MT Finance appoints London senior BDM

MT Finance has appointed Rory Cleary as senior business development manager for London. Cleary joins...

Impact Specialist Finance unveils Covid-19 update for specialist lending

Specialist mortgage broker and distributor, Impact Specialist Finance, has introduced a ‘Specialist Lending Covid-19...

Fiduciam lent £9m in Easter week

Fiduciam believes it is bucking the trend in the bridging market, having lent over...

Mint Bridging unveils Covid-19 deal

Short-term property finance provider Mint Bridging has introduced a new product for April designed...

Catalyst Property Finance ups bridging LTVs

Catalyst Property Finance has reintroduced a higher LTV bridging product up to 70% LTV. The lender had...

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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,...

Building societies need to start putting intelligence into motion

If you were at the Building Societies Association Annual Conference in Edinburgh last month , you could not have missed the optimism: the sector...

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Legal Services Board joins government AI growth initiative

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

Cleerly adopts Acre CRM as conversion rates climb

Specialist mortgage broker Cleerly Mortgages has implemented Acre’s CRM platform after a review of...

First-time buyers face rising stamp duty costs as more homes breach £300k

First-time buyers are increasingly being drawn into paying stamp duty as rising purchase prices...

Word On The Street recruits mortgage operations manager

Specialist mortgage broker Word On The Street has appointed Samuel Bryce as mortgage operations...

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