Bridging

Lloyds Bank joins FIBA lender panel

The Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA) has announced the appointment of Lloyds Bank...

Suros Capital sees enquiry growth for tax bills

Suros Capital has revealed an increase in applications for urgent funding to pay tax...

Shawbrook cuts rates across its real estate product offering

Shawbrook has announced a wide range of rate reductions across its real estate product...

LendInvest Mortgages launches new bridge products

LendInvest Mortgages has launched two new 85% LTV products that support borrowers looking to...

MFS reveals 49 internal promotions in 2023

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has revealed that 49 team members gained promotions in 2023,...

Brightstar partners with LIBF to deliver CPSP

The Brightstar Group is adopting a group-wide strategy to support team members achieve the...

Alternative Bridging offers refunded valuation and legal fees

Alternative Bridging Corporation has introduced its 'Winter Promotion' offering to refund valuation and lender...

Hope Capital announces key internal promotions

Hope Capital has made a number of important promotions within its team. Charlie Gregory, who...

Enra Specialist Finance reports record trading results in 2023

Enra Specialist Finance, the parent company of specialist lender West One Loans and specialist...

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). ...

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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Saffron targets faster mortgage decisions with FintechOS platform

Saffron Building Society has partnered with FintechOS to overhaul its mortgage origination process as...

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...

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