Bridging

Fiduciam continues expansion drive

Bridging lender Fiduciam has reached its target of hiring 25 new staff members in 2019,...

Two lenders jointly fund Sirius property development case

Sirius Property Finance has sourced joint funding for a £14m GDV permitted development scheme...

Construction VAT delay welcomed

Oblix Capital has welcomed HMRC’s decision to delay implementation of the VAT domestic reverse...

Impact Specialist Finance partners with Hampshire Trust Bank

Impact Specialist Finance has agreed an approved packager deal with Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB)...

Together completes £2m re-bridge in four days

Specialist lender Together has worked with master broker Finance 4 Business (F4B) to complete...

Oblix Capital makes COO appointment

Oblix Capital has appointed Stuart Sykes as its new chief operating officer (COO). He is...

Affirmative joins Beneficial’s panel

Bridging and development lender Affirmative is now on panel with the Beneficial adviser network. Members of...

Impact Specialist Finance unveils specialist referral service

Impact Specialist Finance has launched a referral service for its broker partners. The service can...

BFS funds £1.65m luxury residential build in Surrey

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has completed a large scale development finance deal, supporting a...

Octane Capital reaches £250m redemption mark

Octane Capital has revealed that it has passed £250m of redemptions since launching in...

Brightstar Financial joins SmartrRefer panel

Brightstar Financial has become the latest distributor to be added to SmartrRefer, the new...

Fiduciam moves into Scotland

Bridging lender Fiduciam has expanded into Scotland and has now completed its first transaction...

Hope Capital enquiries up 61%

Hope Capital has revealed that the number of loans granted in September is double...

Signature Private Finance hires relationship manager

Privately-owned principal lender, Signature Private Finance, has promoted Nazia Yaqub to the position of...

COMMENT

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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Offa adds halal home finance products to Iress XPM and Trigold

Offa has partnered with Iress to make its halal home finance products available through...

Lenders expecting stability despite global uncertainty

Following the latest US tariff announcement, lenders are continuing to price and operate on...

Lloyds and Halifax cut mortgage rates

Lloyds and Halifax are reducing rates across homemover, first-time buyer, remortgage, product transfer and...

TMG Mortgage Network appoints head of operations

TMG Mortgage Network has appointed Ava Jones as head of operations as it continues...

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