Bridging

Promise reports surge in commercial business

Master broker Promise Solutions has reported a 200% increase in new business in its commercial...

New BDM for Funding 365

Bridging lender Funding 365 has expanded its team with the appointment of Dawn Trustam as...

Smart Money secures FCA authorisation

Chester-based secured loan and bridging distributor Smart Money Limited (SML) has received its full...

Development broker refreshes brand image

Development and bridging broker Positive Commercial Finance has updated its brand image. It wanted a brand identity...

Roma Finance hires introducer relationship manager

Roma Finance has announced the appointment of Vicki Ineson as relationship manager. The appointment comes...

Together makes capital appointment

Specialist lender Together has appointed a new divisional sales manager for London. Tanya Elmaz has...

Positive reveals plans for surging bridging business

Positive Lending has reported a major increase in its bridging business, beating its previous...

Dragonfly to rebrand in the New Year

Dragonfly Property Finance, part of the Octopus group, will rebrand to become part of...

Record results for Crystal

Crystal Specialist Finance has passed the total figure for issued terms in 2014, and...

Shawbrook completes its first regulated bridging deal

Shawbrook Bank has announced its completion on its new regulated bridging mortgage offering. The lender...

Brightstar receives Investors in People bronze award

Brightstar has achieved an Investors in People bronze level accreditation following its first assessment.  Just...

Savills joins the ASTL

Savills has joined the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) as an associate member....

Alpha Bridging appoints BDM

Alpha Bridging has expanded its sales team with the appointment of Andy Stein as...

Dragonfly updates its development finance products

Dragonfly Property Finance had made two changes to its development product range. The interest...

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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