Commercial

Aldermore funds buyout with invoice finance

Aldermore bank has provided an invoice finance facility for an entrepreneur to buy housewares...

Shawbrook provides loan to waste management manufacturer

Private equity house, Chiltern Capital, has completed an investment in a waste management incinerator...

Asset finance market down 11%

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

Together: we’re open for business during lockdown

Specialist lender Together has outlined its strategy as the UK enters its second lockdown. Together...

UTB refinances £34m Falmouth seafront development

United Trust Bank (UTB) is to refinance 53 luxury apartments being developed by housebuilders...

Covid worrying SMEs more than Brexit

48% of British businesses are worried about the impact of the second wave of...

Octane provides 1,000th loan

Octane Capital has completed its 1,000th loan since launching in 2017. The lender said the...

Landbay joins network panel

Landbay has joined Synergy Commercial Finance’s network panel. Landbay was already on Synergy’s packager panel...

UTB appoints new head of asset finance

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed Nathan Mollett as its new head of asset...

Sirius expands down under

Sirius Property Finance is opening of an office in New Zealand. Robert Collins, a...

Covid: IGF provides £65m in new lending

Asset-based lender Independent Growth Finance (IGF) has so far provided £65 million of new lending...

Record quarter for Octane Capital

Octane Capital has revealed that the third quarter of 2020 was its biggest quarter...

New lower rates from Roma

Roma Finance has reduced rates while increasing LTVs and loan amounts across its product...

Glenhawk unveils free valuation offer

Specialist property lender Glenhawk has launched a free valuation offering. It also does not...
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COMMENT

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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