Commercial

Nucleus Commercial Finance appoints BDM for London & SE

Nucleus Commercial Finance has announced that Sam Percival has joined as business development manager (BDM)...

Economic bounceback critical for broker success

55% of brokers believe an economic bounceback and the avoidance of high unemployment is...

Pink Pig Loans appoints three directors

Pink Pig Loans has  announced the appointment of a trio of new directors to...

BFS appoints regional head of sales

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Mike Day as head of sales for Yorkshire...

New successful round of funding for CrowdProperty

CrowdProperty has closed a £1.8m equity funding round. This follows its recent announcement about it...

Continued growth in asset finance sector

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

Allica Bank partners with VAS Panel

Allica Bank has added valuation panel management service, VAS Panel, onto its valuation database...

Newable Finance becomes Shawbrook strategic partner

Newable Finance has been appointed as a new strategic broker partner of Shawbrook Bank’s...

SME leaders not hopeful about ‘levelling up’

New research from Nucleus Commercial Finance has found that 56% of SME leaders believe...

Recognise appoints professional and healthcare heads

Recognise Bank has hired two new industry sector specialists to lead its propositions. Robert Hulse...

Bibby Financial Services appoints regional head of corporate

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Riana Azam as regional head of corporate for businesses...

Roma Finance unveils RomaPrime & RomaPro ranges

Roma Finance has launched new bridging and development ranges with better rates and improved...

Shawbrook Bank revises commercial investment proposition

Shawbrook Bank has made a number of changes to its commercial and Ssemi-commercial investment...

Mint Property Finance creates new management team

Mint Property Finance has introduced a new leadership team in order to promote business...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

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...

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Advice firm wins first client through ChatGPT after AI visibility push

A financial advice firm secured its first client through ChatGPT within two weeks of...

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...

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