Bridging

Largemortgageloans.com increases Guernsey presence

Paul Welch, the founder of Largemortgageloans.com has moved back to Guernsey and increased lending options on the...

Landlords eschew BTLs for HMOs

Bridging lender Roma Finance is seeing buy-to-let landlords convert their properties into Houses in Multiple Occupation...

Marie Grundy becomes bridging lender’s sales director

Marie Grundy has joined West One as sales director. She has over 20 years’ experience in...

Together offers regulated bridging cross-charging

Together has revised its regulated bridging product range with the introduction of cross-charging. The specialist...

Clever Lending makes key commercial appointment

Clever Lending has appointed David Winter as commercial and bridging specialist as the master...

P2P platform gets IFISA green light

LandlordInvest has secured ISA manager approval from HM Revenue and Customs. The FCA authorised peer-to-peer lending platform...

Do your specialist and mainstream knowledge match up?

So here we are in a new year. 2017 has arrived and, if your...

New BDM for Signature Private Finance

Signature Private Finance has appointed Gary Playle as its new business development manager to...

Y3S takes 50% stake in Pink Pig Loans

Y3S Group has acquired a 50% shareholding in Pink Pig Loans (PPL), a brokerage...

Bridging Finance Solutions appoints regional business manager

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has announced the appointment of Richard Gray as regional business manager. Gray...

Record month for West One Loans

West One Loans has reported a record month in November with £54 million lent across residential...

Lender and distributor partner to save ‘dream home’ deal

Working in partnership to save customers from losing their dream home, Together and Specialist...

Goldentree: what north-south divide?

A bridging and development finance lender has revealed the geographical makeup of its lending. Goldentree...

Precise customer details at risk following burglary

A burglary last month at Precise Mortgages' site in Wolverhampton saw computer equipment stolen...

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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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