Commercial

United Trust Bank funds £5m Cambridge development

United Trust Bank (UTB) is to fund the £5m regeneration of a city centre...

SMG celebrates twentieth anniversary

Specialist Mortgage Group (SMG) is this month celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the business. Established in...

Sirius Property Finance expands team

Specialist property debt adviser, Sirius Property Finance, has created a number of new roles. In the...

Four new appointments at Mint Property Finance

Mint Property Finance has created four new positions. Joseph Haworth, who joins as finance director,...

British Business Bank passes £600m lending milestone

The British Business Bank’s Start Up Loans programme today announces it has passed a...

Metro Bank moves into SME insurance

Metro Bank has partnered with Churchill Expert, part of the Direct Line Group, to...

IGF appoints asset based lending director 

Independent Growth Finance (IGF) has appointed Jamie O’Neill as asset based lending (ABL) director. He will focus on origination activity...

3% growth in asset finance market

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has reported that total asset finance new business...

Specialist property lender appoints offshore funding director

Sancus has appointed Matt Davies as director, offshore funding in its Jersey office to...

FIBA members now have access to FutureBricks’ offering

Members of the Financial Intermediary and Broker Association (FIBA) can now access FutureBricks’ full...

Paragon Development Finance appoints deputy managing director

Paragon Development Finance has announced the appointment of Neal Moy as deputy managing director. Moy...

Nucleus Commercial Finance to offer RLS term loans

Nucleus Commercial Finance has been accredited by the British Business Bank under the government-backed...

SoMo reports record first half of 2021

Specialist lender SoMo has lent over £184m since the beginning of the year. It has redeemed...

Recognise Bank appoints head of credit

Gavin Keyte has been appointed head of credit at Recognise Bank. He joins the new...
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Opinions & blogs

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

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Building Societies

The Monmouthshire gives more than £10k to flood-hit local community

Monmouthshire Building Society has donated more than £10,000 to residents, sports clubs and businesses...
Buy-to-let

Rent growth slows as house prices edge higher, with Middle East tensions clouding outlook

Private rent inflation eased again in March while UK house prices rose modestly in...
Appointments

Gen H expands broker sales team with three BDM hires and internal promotion

Gen H has expanded its broker sales team with three new business development managers...
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Detached homes dominate new lifetime mortgage lending in early 2026

Owners of detached properties accounted for more than four in 10 new lifetime mortgages...

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