Bridging

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...

500 pre-register for Lenderlink sourcing platform

Specialist Mortgage Group (SMG) has started the roll out its free Lenderlink sourcing tool. Users...

Martin Gilsenan joins Iron Bridge Finance board

Iron Bridge Finance has announced the immediate appointment of Martin Gilsenan to its main...

Roma Finance employs Open Banking to speed up application process

Roma Finance has completed the pilot phase of offering an Open Banking solution to...

Boutique property developer secures £4.7m Shawbrook facility

Shawbrook Bank has provided boutique property development company NestEast with a £4.7m development finance...

Diversification behind brokers taking on bridging clients

New research has found that 65% of brokers say that the key reason they...

Fall in quarterly value of completed bridging loans

ASTL bridging lender members have reported figures for the third quarter of 2018 that...

Hope Capital signs up to Women in Finance Charter

Bridging lender Hope Capital has signed the Women in Finance Charter, which commits to...

Cabot Square Capital takes majority stake in MSP Capital

Cabot Square Capital has acquired a majority stake in MSP Capital, a specialist provider...

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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