Bridging

Oblix Capital provides £5.63m bridge facility

Oblix Capital has provided a £5.63m refurbishment bridging loan on a contemporary development in Newbury. The...

CSF and Amicus secure £9m for residential development

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) and Amicus have secured deals totalling over £9.1m to fund...

Hampshire Trust Bank completes £1.2m bridging facility in eight days

Property developer Centaur Group has secured a £1.2m development exit facility from Hampshire Trust...

Shawbrook streamlines short-term offering

Shawbrook has announced a revamp of its short-term lending range. The bank has consolidated the...

Octane Capital appoints BDM for the South West

Octane Capital has announced the appointment of Dominic Sheahan as senior business development manager. Sheahan...

New BDM at Signature Private Finance

Signature Private Finance has appointed Jason Fantini as business development manager (BDM) with primary responsibility for...

Oblix Capital raises new £50m OSB funding line

Oblix Capital has raised a new £50m funding line from OneSavings Bank (OSB), which...

Record month for Octane Capital

Octane Capital has passed £200m of lending, having completed on 13 loans in the...

Roma Finance appoints head of sales

Bridging and development lender Roma Finance has appointed Tracey Martin as its head of sales. Martin...

Pair of new BDMs for Oblix Capital

Oblix Capital has appointed two new business development managers (BDMs) to improve its presence across...

New auction product from Mint Bridging

Mint Bridging​ has has developed an auction product with rates from 0.45% per month. It...

£3.25m loan for Peterborough PDR development

Commercial finance consultancy Mantra Capital has arranged a £3.25m loan facility for a client through Arbuthnot...

Masthaven extends Bridging Plus distribution

Masthaven has announced the roll-out of its Bridging Plus short-term lending product to the...

Positive Lending deal saves client £500k

Positive Lending has arranged a £17 million development finance facility with Aldermore.  Funding was...

COMMENT

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

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The Monmouthshire gives more than £10k to flood-hit local community

Monmouthshire Building Society has donated more than £10,000 to residents, sports clubs and businesses...

Rent growth slows as house prices edge higher, with Middle East tensions clouding outlook

Private rent inflation eased again in March while UK house prices rose modestly in...

Gen H expands broker sales team with three BDM hires and internal promotion

Gen H has expanded its broker sales team with three new business development managers...

Detached homes dominate new lifetime mortgage lending in early 2026

Owners of detached properties accounted for more than four in 10 new lifetime mortgages...

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