Bridging

Funding 365 moves into Northern Ireland

Funding 365 has announced the launch of its residential bridging proposition for Northern Ireland....

Suros Capital widens service to business lending

Suros Capital, the luxury asset backed short term lender, will now lend to companies...

OSB Group makes key personnel changes

OSB Group has introduced a new senior sales structure, designed to support its intermediary...

Sharp rise in time and cost of planning permission for SMEs

Research commissioned by the Land, Planning and Development Federation (LPDF) and United Trust Bank...

Roma Finance hires business development manager pair

Roma Finance has appointed Amer Watson and Shahed Popat as business development managers (BDMs). ...

MT Finance adds AVMs to bridging offering

MT Finance has announced its introduction of automated valuation models (AVMs) to its bridging...

Hope Capital improves employee benefit scheme

Hope Capital is investing significantly in its internal wellbeing and benefits scheme, myHOPE. ...

UTB cuts bridging rates and lowers minimum loan size

United Trust Bank (UTB) has made a series of changes and rate reductions of...

Brokers more optimistic about year ahead than 12 months ago

Crystal Specialist Finance has surveyed over 10,000 brokers for the second year running and...

MFS cuts residential bridging and BTL rates

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has cut rates across its residential bridging and buy-to-let mortgage...

Arc & Co arranges £9.5m bridging loan

Real estate finance advisory firm Arc & Co. has arranged a bridging loan of...

Aspen completes £2.8m development exit

Aspen Bridging has completed a £2.8m development exit bridge on a 14-unit development of...

Bridging Finance Solutions outlines growth plans

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has revealed plans to expand by a further 25% in...

Planning and development changes offer new year opportunities

The end of the year is not only a time for reflection, but for...

COMMENT

Rental barometer shows strength, but March changes the tone

Looking at our recently published Q1 2026 Rental Barometer data in isolation, there is clearly a strong and positive story to tell. Average rental...

Home and away: How appetite for UK property is rising

Conflicts in Ukraine and now the Middle East are a reminder that the catastrophic impact of war is not confined to war zones.   The...

Mutual strength and the broker partnership

The mutual sector has always been associated with community purpose, local branches and a member-first approach that feels a little different to the wider...

First-time, accidental or professional? How the landlord profile is shifting in 2026

One of the most common misconceptions that people have about the buy-to-let market is that landlords are a single, uniform group. The reality is...

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

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CII says vulnerability management can help firms grow

The Chartered Insurance Institute has said firms can use stronger vulnerability management to expand...

Royal London wins approval to offer Targeted Support

Royal London has received regulatory approval to provide Targeted Support, becoming one of the...

Together expands second charge range into commercial sector

Together has launched a new suite of commercial and semi-commercial second charge products as...

HTB launches ‘Flow’ range with rates from 5.54%

Hampshire Trust Bank has introduced ‘Flow’ - a new buy-to-let tier with rates starting...

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