Bridging

Hope Capital opts for Target Bluechip’s bridging system

Target Group is to supply its bridging lending system to Hope Capital Bridging Finance,...

Amicus funds £5m deal after stakeholder workshop

Amicus has concluded its biggest ever deal with Adapt Finance following its stakeholder workshop. A...

Brightstar reaches £1 billion milestone

Brightstar Financial has surpassed £1 billion in lending in four years. The loan that took...

Roma Finance rebridges BTL landlord

Roma Finance has lent £400,000 over six months with a five-day completion to a...

Hope Capital increases maximum loan size

Bridging lender Hope Capital has increased its maximum loan size to £5 million. Previously its...

Masthaven recruits savings head

Masthaven has announced the appointment of James Blower as its head of savings. Blower...

P2P platform teams up with Amicus

44% of retail investors want to improve their exposure to the UK property market by...

Demand for bridging continues to rise

93% of brokers considered bridging finance a useful financing tool during the third quarter,...

Positive Lending offers free upfront bridging valuations

Bournemouth-based packager Positive Lending is offering free upfront valuations on Precise and Aldermore bridging...

Amicus poaches pair from Fincorp

Short-term lender Amicus has recruited Matthew Anderson and Nigel Alexander from Fincorp as regional...

New funding line for bridging lender

Bridging lender Century Capital has secured a new funding line from an undisclosed London...

Strong September for Shawbrook

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

Y3S Group posts £1.7m profit

Y3S Group has reported a combined net profit before taxation of £1.7m on total revenues...

Oblix Capital hires head of credit

Bridging and development finance provider Oblix Capital has appointed Tom Reeve as head of credit....

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

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...

LendInvest unveils 10bps buy-to-let rate cuts

LendInvest Mortgages has reduced rates across its two-year and five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let products by...

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