Bridging

Roma Finance partnership to guide contractors into property development

Roma Finance has become the official lending partner for Rise Up Development’s education programme,...

AFIG launches nationwide Broker Club for specialist finance brokers

AFIG Ltd has launched the Broker Club, a new initiative designed to reshape the...

LendInvest partners with BidX1 to improve finance options for auction buyers

LendInvest Mortgages has formed a new partnership with digital auction platform BidX1, aiming to...

SDKA steps in after mid-term policy change leaves developer at risk

SDKA has provided a £180,000 residential bridging loan to support a developer whose original...

Bridging market sees Q3 growth return

The UK’s bridging finance sector regained momentum in the third quarter, with lending, applications...

Hope Capital gains dual recognition for workplace standards

Hope Capital Property Finance has been accredited as a Living Wage Employer and has...

HTB completes £1.1m Midlands refinancing in four hours

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a £1.1m residential investment refinancing in the Midlands...

Brookfield Surveyors joins BDLA as associate member

Brookfield Surveyors has become an associate member of the Bridging and Development Lenders Association...

Shawbrook backs 42-home London scheme with £13m development facility

Shawbrook has partnered with P10 Financial Group to provide a £13m development facility that...

Inspired Lending backs borrower with £250,000 second charge bridge in Cheshire

Inspired Lending has provided a £250,000 net second charge loan to a personal borrower...

AUTUMN BUDGET: Industry braces for impact

On Wednesday, the Chancellor is due to deliver the second highly anticipated Autumn Budget...

SDKA steps in after developer hit by mid-term lender policy change

An experienced developer has secured new finance from SDKA after their existing development lender...

Together reports quarterly profit of £55.7m as loan book reaches £8bn

Together Financial Services has posted underlying profit before tax of £55.7m for the quarter...

Gold collection enables rapid £150k loan for business owner

A marketing entrepreneur has secured a four-month £150,000 loan against his gold collection after...

COMMENT

Why you need to know what sits behind the average review score

There’s a funny thing about review scores. The better they are, the less likely we are to question them. If a company is sitting at...

The new Chancellor wants to remove barriers to growth; he should start with housing

There was probably a degree of unintended irony in the Treasury choosing to call the Chancellor, John Healey’s, first major market ‘intervention’ his ‘Growth...

Brokers are losing the attention battle 1,000 to 3

Take a client you placed on a 5-year fix last year. Over the life of that deal, their bank is now planning to contact...

Triple lock or no triple lock? That is not the question

The debate over the State Pension triple lock has returned. But perhaps the more important question is what the debate tells us about the...

Your clients have already asked AI

The FCA published research on 27 August showing that 56% of 18- to 40-year-olds who hold or are considering investments say they trust AI...

Latest news

Rents set to rise by up to 5% as supply falls

UK rental growth is accelerating again as higher mortgage rates keep would-be first-time buyers...

Buy-to-let company formations fall as landlord incorporation boom slows

The number of new buy-to-let companies being established has fallen this year as the...

Mortgage sector wellbeing improves but burnout risks persist

Mental wellbeing across the mortgage industry has improved over the past year, although long...

Cyber attacks on property businesses rise 17% as hackers target client data

Cyber attacks against UK property services businesses increased by 17% last year as agents...

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