Bridging

Hilco completes fast £1.5m bridge for care home provider

Hilco Real Estate Finance (HREF) recently provided a rapid £1.5m bridging loan to a...

CapitalRise and Colliers structure £6.3m loan for Mayfair townhouse redevelopment

CapitalRise has announced a £6.3 million loan to facilitate the enfranchisement of a townhouse...

MFS joins New Leaf lender panel

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has been added to New Leaf Distribution’s panel of lenders. ...

Shawbrook provides £10.8m development exit funding in 12 days

Shawbrook has completed a £10.8 million development exit loan for a luxury flat development...

Five new faces at Catalyst

Specialist lender Catalyst has expanded its lending team with five new hires. Appointments have...

Aspen adds 16th student to graduate scheme

Daniel Tame has become the 16th university student to join Aspen Bridging’s lauded Graduate...

Paragon Bank passes £3bn development finance milestone

Paragon Bank’s development finance division has exceeded the £3 billion lending milestone. The £3 billion...

Developers want council housebuilding targets set by government

74% of developers believe that the government setting targets for councils would be the...

MFS cuts Bridge Fusion and commercial BTL rates

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has reduced rates across a number of product ranges. The...

HTB funds complex six-flat £2.1m development exit

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a complex £2.1m development exit facility for a...

Tuscan Capital funds £6.8m high-leverage deal

Tuscan Capital has announced the funding of a £6.8 million deal for five luxury,...

Hilco makes senior bridging appointment

Hilco Real Estate Finance (HREF) has appointed Duncan Pearson as senior business development consultant. ...

LendInvest Mortgages increases regulated bridging LTV

LendInvest Mortgages has announced an LTV update to its regulated bridging product. The lender is...

HTB provides £12.5m loan for NE designer shopping village

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a £12.5 million loan facility to support the...

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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L&G Mortgage Club adds estate agency referral service

L&G Mortgage Club has partnered with GOTO Estate Agency to launch a referral service...

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...

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