Bridging

Record quarterly completions for Crystal Specialist Finance

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) agreed £503.1m in applications from July to September. The latest figure,...

Too many Expos?

I can’t be the only one to wonder at the mushrooming number of Expo...

Fortwell Capital backs five large developments

Fortwell Capital has provided over £50 million of funding in one week, including £30...

Ingard adds Funding 365 to panel

Ingard has announced that London-based bridging lender, Funding 365, will provide its appointed representatives...

New BDM for United Trust Bank

United Trust Bank (UTB) has recruited Steve Grant as a new property finance business...

LendInvest Development Finance counts the miles

LendInvest has revealed that its development finance team has travelled over 2,500 miles in...

Shawbrook continues commercial partner days

Shawbrook Bank's commercial mortgage team has welcomed over a hundred brokers to its annual...

Amicus applies for banking licence

Amicus Finance plc has submitted a banking licence application to the Prudential Regulation Authority...

SMP: 500 now qualified to Level 4

The Society of Mortgage Professionals (SMP) has revealed that 500 mortgage advisers have already...

Mint Bridging hires marketing head

Mint Bridging has announced the appointment of Amparo Burgos as its head of marketing. She has...

Clever Lending teams up with Paradigm Mortgage Services 

Clever Lending has joined the Paradigm Mortgage Services panel as a specialist lending partner. For second charge mortgages,...

How bridging can make the difference

Anyone who has been involved in the mortgage or loans market for any length...

LendInvest hires VP for compliance

LendInvest has appointed Willem Wellinghoff as vice-president of compliance. Wellinghoff (pictured) is responsible for leading...

LendInvest cuts vanilla residential bridging rates

LendInvest has cut the interest rates on its Tier 1 residential bridging loan range...

COMMENT

Kevin Tunnicliffe on ending the race to the bottom

This was always going to be a tricky interview. I’ve known Kevin Tunnicliffe, chief executive officer of Sort Group, which includes Sort Refer, for...

Beyond the Robo-Adviser: why the future of mortgages is ‘Human Plus’

The fintech industry is obsessing over a binary choice: the traditional human broker or the fully automated 'robo-adviser'. But as we navigate the complexities...

Ceasefire boosts sentiment more than mortgage market

What goes up must come down, but for mortgage rates the drop will be notably more gradual than the sharp increase triggered by the...

A surge today, but what comes next for advisers and conveyancing?

March has provided a very clear example of how quickly this market can move when lenders feel the need to take action, with widespread...

Technology adapts so you don’t have to

20 years ago, many brokerages looked and operated in very similar ways. Typically small, local business, many firms focused solely on standard residential mortgage...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts limited company buy-to-let rates for brokers

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced selected limited company buy-to-let rates by up to 20...

Paragon Bank introduces limited edition 60% LTV buy-to-let products

Paragon Bank has expanded its buy-to-let range with a new tranche of 60% loan-to-value...

TwentyCi hires Nick Huntley to lead sales at TwentyEA and TwentyConvey

TwentyCi has appointed Nick Huntley as sales director for TwentyEA and TwentyConvey as the...

HSBC cuts mortgage rates by up to 34bps across core ranges

HSBC UK has reduced mortgage rates across its product range, with cuts of up...

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