Bridging

Bridging lenders positive despite Brexit

Bridging lenders who are members of the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) are increasingly...

LendInvest unveils pre-construction product

LendInvest has launched a new pre-construction finance product, aimed at property professionals seeking to...

West One Loans cuts unregulated bridging rates

West One Loans has cut rates for unregulated residential loans by up to 0.4...

Roma Finance announces underwriting promotions

Roma Finance has announced the promotion of Daniel Hill to bridging sales specialist and Lorraine Hart...

West One Loans partners with Black Book Finance

West One Loans range of bridging products are now being offered to mortgage intermediaries...

Brokers expect development finance demand rise

A broker sentiment survey, carried out in January this year by specialist lender United...

LendInvest funds Canary Wharf development deal

LendInvest has partnered with Merseyside Pension Fund to finance a loan secured against a...

BFS hires consultant to boost banking referrals

Lee Gilmore has joined Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) as a consultant. Gilmore, who is a...

Clever Lending: regulated bridging finance on the up

Clever Lending has reported a "significant" rise in regulated bridging finance in terms of...

Ex-Dragonfly trio launch Octane Capital

Founder of Dragonfly Property Finance, Jonathan Samuels, is to launch Octane Capital in May. Octane Capital...

Bridging Finance Solutions adopts Target’s Bluechip web portal

Target Group is to supply its new Bluechip web portal to Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS). The...

UTB reveals ‘Meet the Specialists’ promo winner

United Trust Bank has announced that the winner of its 2016 'Meet the Specialists' broker...

Further ‘Spring Fling’ changes from Shawbrook

Shawbrook Commercial Mortgages has unveiled rate reductions on all short term products, as well as...

Profits and originations up at OneSavings Bank

OneSavings Bank (OSB) has reported a rise of 29% in underlying pre-tax profits to...

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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