Bridging

KSEYE partners with LDN to complete £4.2m residential bridge

KSEYE and broker firm LDN Finance have completed a £4.2 million residential bridging loan...

Aspen completes £6.5m Reigate development exit bridge

Aspen Bridging has provided a £6.5m development exit bridging loan to experienced developers, enabling...

Hope Capital revamps service offering

Hope Capital has stated that it has made "significant" upgrades to its service proposition...

Q&A: Marios Theophanous, London Credit

BestAdvice fires the questions at Marios Theophanous, credit manager at London Credit. BestAdvice (BA): The...

Promotion for UTB’s Illman

United Trust Bank (UTB) has promoted bridging specialist Bradley Illman to the role of...

Aspen completes complex refurbishment bridge

A heavy works conversion in Cheltenham as well as a church redevelopment and nearby...

Black & White Bridging to upskill workforce using CPSP

Black & White Bridging has committed to upskill its entire workforce over the next...

London Credit speeds up completions by factor of three

Bridging lender, London Credit, has substantially improved its year-on-year completion times. London Credit has...

Rob Collins returns to Sirius Finance

Sirius Finance has announced that one of its founding directors, Rob Collins, has returned...

Trade body opposes FCA’s ‘name and shame’ plans

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has opposed proposals by the FCA that...

InterBay provides £4.5m bridge

A recent bridging deal with InterBay through SPF Private Clients took three weeks from...

Mortimer Street Capital completes £4.1m development exit deal

Mortimer Street Capital has completed a £4.1m development exit bridging facility for a client...

Hope Capital makes dual representation improvements

Hope Capital says it has made improvements to its offering, now considering legal dual...

Saxon Trust completes £2.5m development loan

Saxon Trust has recently completed a £2.52 million ground up development loan secured on...

COMMENT

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

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...

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Prime London prices fall 7% as buyers hold back

Prime London house prices fell by 7% year-on-year in August as uncertainty over borrowing...

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help...

UK rate hike risk grows after Fed raises rates

The prospect of UK interest rates rising again is moving back onto the agenda...

Novus launches mortgage simulator to tackle completion delays

Novus Strategy has launched a mortgage journey simulator designed to allow lenders to test...

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