Bridging

Gary Bailey joins Hope Capital as managing director

Bridging lender Hope Capital has appointed Gary Bailey as its first managing director. Bailey...

LendInvest sees record December for loan originations

LendInvest lent £83 million to professional property investors, developers and landlords in December 2018,...

MT Finance hires senior underwriter

MT Finance has appointed Cattrina Wigley to the position of senior underwriter. Wigley (pictured) joins MT...

UTB and Iron Bridge partner with development funding

United Trust Bank and Iron Bridge Finance, the London-based mezzanine development lender, have jointly...

Promotion for ​Mint Bridging’s head of underwriting

Mint Bridging has created a new role of head of lending, promotion for head...

New debt advisory service launches

A new debt advisory firm called Yellow Stone Finance has been set up by...

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...

COMMENT

No benefit to be had from ‘wait and see’

It seems to be a recurring theme as of late, but it’s been yet another week of volatile rates. Swap rates continue to move,...

What financial services can learn from the World Cup

Look, bear with us here. What does the World Cup have to do with financial services reviews? Well, more than you think actually! This summer,...

Buyers are already reacting to a Budget nobody has written

Andy Burnham ruled out changes to stamp duty on 27 July, a week into the job and days after reports that the government was...

The tech question is how, not if, we can use it

Recent adviser research from Nottingham Building Society underlines the appetite for greater use of technology across the mortgage process. The vast majority (89%) of...

Mortgage maturity: A golden opportunity for advisers

Around 1.8 million fixed-rate mortgage deals are due to come to an end in 2026, adding to the 1.6 million mortgages that already matured...

Latest news

Nationwide trims fixed mortgage rates by up to 0.19 points

Nationwide is cutting fixed mortgage rates for first-time buyers, home movers and remortgage customers...

Walbrook launches mortgage adviser apprenticeship pathway

Walbrook Institute London has expanded its apprenticeship offering with a new Level 3 pathway...

Mortgage Advice Bureau combines new-build businesses under Meridian Group

Mortgage Advice Bureau has completed the integration of three specialist new-build mortgage businesses into...

UTB restores 90% LTV second charge lending and cuts rates

United Trust Bank has reintroduced residential second charge lending at up to 90% loan-to-value...

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