Bridging

Wey Bridging Finance joins BDLA

Wey Bridging Finance has become the latest lender to join the Bridging & Development...

SDKA launches AVM service to speed bridging completions

Bridging lender SDKA has introduced Automated Valuation Models (AVMs) for first-charge residential purchase transactions,...

Mortgage industry gears up for Take Me Home 25 Christmas Charity Concert

Support continues to build for what is shaping up to be the mortgage industry’s...

Funding 365 completes £1.6m Surrey development exit loan

Funding 365 has provided a £1.6 million development exit loan at a rate of...

HTB hires new head of portfolio management

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has appointed Mathura Paramjorthy as head of portfolio management within...

Black & White Bridging strengthens operations team with trio of appointments

Black & White Bridging has made three appointments to bolster its back-office operations as...

Cohort Capital completes £20m Hyde Park hotel acquisition loan

Cohort Capital has provided a £20 million facility to fund the acquisition of The...

Aspen completes 10-day £700k bridge using new dual representation service

Aspen Bridging has completed its first transactions under a new dual representation legal service...

Roma Finance completes £1.5m four-day auction loan

Roma Finance has completed a £1.5 million bridging loan in four days to fund...

UTB and Iron Bridge mark decade-long partnership delivering more than 550 homes

United Trust Bank (UTB) and Iron Bridge Finance are marking a decade of collaboration...

CapitalRise joins BDLA to strengthen collaboration in specialist lending

CapitalRise has joined the Bridging & Development Lenders Association (BDLA), becoming the latest lender...

StreamBank joins Synergy Commercial Finance lender panel

StreamBank has joined the lender panel of Synergy Commercial Finance, giving the network’s appointed...

Paragon supports £30m Ascot development

Paragon Bank has provided a £10 million revolving credit facility to support a £30...

HTB appoints new bridging BDM to strengthen London presence

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has appointed Razvana Khan as business development manager for London...

COMMENT

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Why you need to know what sits behind the average review score

There’s a funny thing about review scores. The better they are, the less likely we are to question them. If a company is sitting at...

The new Chancellor wants to remove barriers to growth; he should start with housing

There was probably a degree of unintended irony in the Treasury choosing to call the Chancellor, John Healey’s, first major market ‘intervention’ his ‘Growth...

Brokers are losing the attention battle 1,000 to 3

Take a client you placed on a 5-year fix last year. Over the life of that deal, their bank is now planning to contact...

Triple lock or no triple lock? That is not the question

The debate over the State Pension triple lock has returned. But perhaps the more important question is what the debate tells us about the...

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Target Group posts record client satisfaction score

Target Group has reported its highest client satisfaction score to date, six months after...

Four-month fall in sales agreed signals weaker mortgage market

Mortgage lenders face a potentially weaker final quarter after property sales agreed fell by...

HSBC to raise residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates

HSBC UK is increasing mortgage rates across much of its residential and buy-to-let range...

Cumberland expands school money workshops into second year

The Cumberland Building Society is extending its financial education programme for primary school children...

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