Bridging

Positive Lending completes £10m bridge

Positive Lending has revealed that it completed a £10m bridging loan with United Trust...

Shawbrook posts commercial SLA results for December

Shawbrook Bank’s commercial mortgages division has published its service level agreement (SLA) figures for December...

Beware the best bridging rates

At First 4 Bridging we speak to brokers every day of the week, and...

Dragonfly celebrates best ever month

Dragonfly Property Finance has revealed that it had its biggest month ever in December...

Together saves client with two-day turnaround

Together has revealed that it worked with partners Crystal Specialist Finance and Priority Law...

New hires for West One Loans

Bridging lender West One Loans has made two key appointments. Paul Simpson joins the...

New brand identity for Y3S Group

Cardiff-based specialist finance group Y3S has unveiled its latest brand identity,overhauling it for the first time...

West One Loans reveals 2015 gross lending

West One Loans has reported that it completed £392m of gross lending in 2015. ...

Alpha Bridging joins the ASTL

Specialist bridging lender Alpha Bridging has joined the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL). Alpha...

Bridging lender completes £3m deal in four days

Century Capital has announced the completion of a £3m first charge loan to an...

Positive extends free bridging valuation offer

Positive Lending is extending its offer to provide a free upfront valuation on Precise...

Colin Bell joins Hampshire Trust to spearhead commercial launch

Colin Bell has become managing director of commercial mortgages at Hampshire Trust Bank. He has...

Bridging loan returns trumping wine and art

Research from West One Loans has indicated that bridging loans have provided investors higher...

Masthaven completes £4m regulated bridge in 4 days

Masthaven Finance has announced the completion of a £4.2m regulated bridging loan for Savills...

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...

Latest news

FRP arranges £4.1m refinance for York student accommodation scheme

FRP Real Estate Advisory has arranged a £4.1m commercial term facility to refinance a...

The Mortgage Works signals buy-to-let rate reductions

The Mortgage Works is cutting rates by up to 0.22 percentage points across selected...

Accord reduces residential and buy-to-let rates

Accord Mortgages is cutting rates across its residential and buy-to-let ranges. The intermediary-only lender said...

Leek BS launches five-year buy-to-let fixed rate

Leek Building Society has added a five-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage to its intermediary...

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