Bridging

Strong Q1 for Amicus

Amicus Finance has revealed that it completed £67m worth of completions in the first quarter...

SJW Property Finance beats first year targets

Manchester-based property firm SJW Property Finance says its first year of trading has exceeded...

First Merchant joins ASTL

First Merchant has joined the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) as an associate...

New range and rate reductions from Masthaven

Bridging lender Masthaven Finance has changed its product offering and improved lending options. New products include: Lending...

Crystal Mortgages rebrands to highlight core markets

Midlands-based Crystal Mortgages has rebranded to Crystal Specialist Finance. It is highlighting five distinctive...

Roz Cawood joins Lendinvest

Lendinvest has announced that Roz Cawood has joined as national account manager. She joins from...

New bridging report launched

Bridging finance participants have launched a new report highlighting the latest trends shaping the...

Robert Owen joins United Trust Bank

United Trust Bank has appointed industry veteran Robert Owen as director of specialist mortgages. ...

Aldermore improves bridging proposition

Aldermore is offering discounted valuation fees and increased procuration fees for brokers in bridging...

Roma Finance appoints lending manager

Bridging finance provider Roma Finance has promoted Daniel Hill to the position of lending manager.  Hill (pictured) has worked at Roma...

Smart Money: ignore Scotland at your peril

Smart Money has argued that Scotland represents untapped value for the specialist lending market,...

West One Loans hails “big start” to 2015

West One Loans completed more than £80m worth of loans in the first quarter...

Brokers still dissatisfied with solicitor responses

Amicus's annual broker survey has found that 73% of brokers continue to be dissatisfied...

Dragonfly hires internal BDM

Dragonfly Property Finance has recruited Daniel Murray as an internal business development manager. Murray joins...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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