Commercial

Pitch 4 Finance secures funding for £6.2m complex portfolio

Pitch 4 Finance has completed a £6.2m refinance transaction on a complex portfolio of...

Market Financial Solutions cuts rates

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has reduced rates across a range of products. The bridging lender...

Roma Finance introduces new fast processing channel

Roma Finance has launched a fast new channel for cases it deems as being...

Allica Bank launches commercial mortgages for care home market

Allica Bank has launched new specialist commercial mortgages for care homes run by independent...

Hope Capital unveils development exit deal

Hope Capital has introduced a new product for residential development exit, offering up to...

Together takes out new 25-year lease on Manchester HQ

Together has signed a new 25-year lease on its £39 million headquarters as it...

Bridging lender completes £850k deal in under 24 hours

KSEYE has completed a £850,000 loan in less than 24 hours to enable a...

Masthaven reduces minumum loan amounts

Masthaven Bank's minimum loan amount on its bridging, specialist bridging and refurbishment products has...

Together hires property development specialist 

Specialist lender Together has announced the appointment of experienced property professional Chris Taylor to...

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...

COMMENT

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

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Alps expands landlord insurance add-ons on Acturis

Alps has made its full range of let property insurance add-ons available through the...

Lifetime ISAs linked to £67.5bn of first-time buyer property purchases

Lifetime ISAs have helped more than 417,000 people buy their first home since the...

Landbay webinar to examine outlook for rates and UK economy

Landbay is to host an economic webinar examining the outlook for interest rates, inflation...

Cost of living hits homeownership plans for more than half of young Scots

More than half of younger adults in Scotland say cost-of-living pressures are the biggest...

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