Bridging

MTF raises £50m in new funding

Short-term property lender MT Finance Limited (MTF) has announced the completion of new senior...

Oblix Capital appoints new BDM

Oblix Capital has appointed Mark Marlow as a business development manager (BDM) for London...

Central Bridging provides £2m second charge bridge

Central Bridging has completed a £2m second charge bridging loan in 10 working days. The...

UTB appoints head of product development

Simon Burnell, formerly director of sales at Vida Homeloans, has joined United Trust Bank...

30% of brokers expect zero growth in 2019

United Trust Bank’s latest broker sentiment survey has found that 51% of brokers operating...

£500k bridge arranged in seven hours

Broker Finance 4 Business (F4B) and specialist lender Together have announced the completion of...

CSF competes first Precise refurb BTL case

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has finalised its first Precise Mortgages’ Refurb Buy to Let...

High LTV mortgages remain a priority for brokers

Knowledge Bank has revealed the the top five most searched criteria by brokers during November...

Record month for Glenhawk

Glenhawk originated £9.28 million of loans during November, a record month for the business. 11 loans...

BFS provides £634k to repeat development finance customer

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has finalised a short term finance agreement for £634,000 with...

RBS triples Roma Finance funding line

Roma Finance has secured a major increase of its funding facility with the Royal Bank...

42% of finance brokers have no Brexit plans

United Trust Bank’s latest broker sentiment survey has found that 42% of brokers operating...

Octopus Property provides £12.6m loan for Isle of Dogs deal

Octopus Property is to provide residential developer London Green and equity partner Orlandis Capital...

LendInvest provides £19.3m development loan for South West housing scheme

LendInvest, has provided a developer with a £19.3 million loan to fund a large...

COMMENT

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...

Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 21

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter's (MIMHC) third annual 144-mile Walk & Talk challenge finally came to an end on Friday 15th May as...

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The Darlington trims mortgage rates by up to 20bps

Darlington Building Society has reduced selected rates across its residential, specialist residential, shared ownership,...

Brokers review sourcing technology as demand grows for connected systems

Mortgage brokers are increasingly reassessing their technology stacks, with sourcing systems emerging as the...

Rosemount expands internship programme with two Cardiff Business School students

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has welcomed two new interns from Cardiff Business School as...

West Brom cuts shared ownership mortgage rates

West Brom Building Society has reduced selected shared ownership mortgage rates by up to...

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