Bridging

Mint Bridging to provide direct access to underwriters

Mint Bridging has changed the way it operates after undertaking an extensive review of...

Funding 365 cuts residential and commercial bridging rates

Funding 365 has cut the starting interest rates for its residential bridging to 0.59%...

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries provides £13m development finance

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries has partnered with Mortgage Force on behalf of the latter's...

Bridging applications reach record level

The Association of Short-Term Lenders (ASTL) has reported that bridging loan applications totalled more...

Aspen Bridging offers ‘flextensions’ to clients

Aspen Bridging has introduced flexible loan extensions to help protect a borrower’s equity in...

Funding 365 completes bridging loan in 24 hours

Funding 365 has completed a £450,000 residential investment bridging loan in one day for...

Mint Bridging becomes FIBA member

Mint Bridging has become the latest lender partner of FIBA, the financial intermediary and broker...

UTB partners with Barwood Capital to fund barn conversions

United Trust Bank (UTB) and the UK regional real estate specialist, Barwood Capital, have...

Together reports “solid performance” for last quarter

Together has reported that profit before tax for the first quarter of 2019 was...

MFS appoints BDM

Bridging lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has hired its third business development manager for...

Signature appoints lending manager in Scotland

Signature Private Finance has appointed Alan Coats as its latest lending manager. He will be...

UTB appointed to Connect for Intermediaries’ panel

United Trust Bank (UTB) products are now available to Connect for Intermediaries brokers, providing...

Castle Trust partners with Platinum Options

Castle Trust has embarked upon a partnership with commercial specialist, Platinum Options, with an...

Brokers increasingly searching for where lenders will lend

Lending in Wales and Scotland were amongst top five criteria searches for the first...

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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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...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and...

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