Bridging

FIBA adds Market Harborough BS to lender panel

The Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA), part of Simplybiz, has announced the addition...

LHV Bank completes £7.4m retail parade refinancing

LHV Bank has announced the completion of a £7.4m refinancing facility for a property...

HTB provides £11m loan for student flats scheme

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a £10.92 million development finance facility to fund...

Hilco provides £21.3m dev exit loan

Hilco Real Estate Finance (HREF) has provided a family-owned London property developer with a...

Suros Capital funds renovation of student flats within 24 hours

Suros Capital has provided a fast funding solution for a client who needed a...

Market Financial Solutions extends institutional funding line

Market Financial Solutions has renegotiated and extended an institutional funding line worth £1.5 billion...

Finova Broker adds Norton Broker Services to club panel

Norton Broker Services has been added to the finova Payment & Mortgage Services’ (fPMS)...

Hope Capital partners with DeskVal for quicker turnarounds

Hope Capital has teamed up with DeskVal to offer a new, "instant" automated system...

HTB provides £12.8m refinance

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a £12.8m refinance to move a development finance...

Leveraging commercial finance in a positive market

The commercial property market in the UK is showing signs of resilience and growth....

Inspired Lending provides business cashflow with £500k loan

Inspired Lending has funded a £500,000 capital raise to support a business owner's cashflow...

Whistleblower laments regulatory failures over Tiuta collapse

A whistleblower has accused the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and its successor, the Financial...

Glenhawk expands BDM team

Glenhawk has appointed Alex Robertson and Harleigh French to lead its internal telephone business...

Hilco completes £17m bridge for London developer

Bridging lender Hilco Real Estate Finance (HREF) has provided a property developer with a...

COMMENT

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Why you need to know what sits behind the average review score

There’s a funny thing about review scores. The better they are, the less likely we are to question them. If a company is sitting at...

The new Chancellor wants to remove barriers to growth; he should start with housing

There was probably a degree of unintended irony in the Treasury choosing to call the Chancellor, John Healey’s, first major market ‘intervention’ his ‘Growth...

Brokers are losing the attention battle 1,000 to 3

Take a client you placed on a 5-year fix last year. Over the life of that deal, their bank is now planning to contact...

Triple lock or no triple lock? That is not the question

The debate over the State Pension triple lock has returned. But perhaps the more important question is what the debate tells us about the...

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Family BS relaunches fixed rates with 0.60% increase

Family Building Society has reintroduced its fixed-rate mortgage range with rates increased by 0.60...

Mortgage rates face further pressure as inflation rises to 3.1%

Mortgage rates could face further upward pressure after UK inflation climbed back above 3%...

OneDome takes integrated homebuying service nationwide

OneDome has launched a national television campaign promoting its integrated homebuying service, which brings...

Buyers put greater premium on energy-efficient homes

Energy efficiency is playing a growing role in homebuying decisions, with almost three-quarters of...

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