Bridging

Shawbrook Bank launches its lowest ever bridging rates

Shawbrook Bank has made a number of product changes to its short term loan...

Alternative finance growth outstrips traditional lending

Growth in traditional mortgage lending (1.4%) was outpaced 50 times by annual growth in...

AToM to hold specialist lending seminars

All Types of Mortgages Ltd (AToM) has announced the first dates of a series...

New hire for Bridgebank

Bridgebank Capital has announced the appointment of Kay Williams as legal case manager. Her role...

Masthaven hires group financial controller

Inge Valkenburg has joined Masthaven as its group financial controller. Valkenburg (pictured) joins the London-based...

Bridgebank Capital grows business development team

Bridgebank Capital has announced the appointment of Trupti Edwards in a new role as...

New senior BDM for Dragonfly

Dragonfly Property Finance has appointed Maria Magnussen to the position of senior business development...

Record time at Crystal Mortgages

Crystal Mortgages has reported that new products and high street banks' continuing reluctance to...

Mayfair Bridging makes UCIS-related hire

Bridging lender Mayfair Bridging has appointed Jamie Bleakley as its head of sales and...

Borro offering England rugby lead incentive

Borro has unveiled a broker incentive scheme, with international rugby as the prize. The first...

Dragonfly head of sales to leave

Elliot Hyames, head of sales at Dragonfly Property Finance, is to leave the bridging...

Precise revamps bridging proposition

Precise Mortgages has cut the price of its bridging loans. The redesign of pricing has...

Brightstar increases Precise proc fees

Brightstar Financial has increased procuration fees for bridging deals on cases for Precise Mortgages. For...

Masthaven’s move north of the border heralded

Capital Bridging Finance has welcomed Masthaven's move into Scotland. Following Cheval departure's from the sector...

COMMENT

The case for tech fluency before AI adoption in the mutual sector

It often feels like there is only one conversation taking place in financial services at the moment: artificial intelligence. Whether it’s trade shows and...

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

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Cyberattack disrupts Romanian property transactions

A cyberattack on Romania’s national land registry has disrupted property transactions across the country...

Just Mortgages and April launch 100% LTV mortgage with family support

Just Mortgages has expanded its first-time buyer range with a semi-exclusive joint borrower sole...

Aldermore sets out five-tier mortgage range for borrowers outside high street criteria

Aldermore is to introduce a five-tier residential lending range aimed at borrowers whose circumstances...

Buyers value energy efficiency but resist paying a premium

Energy efficiency matters to 85% of homebuyers, but only 2% would pay significantly more...

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