Commercial

Aldermore makes asset finance sales hire

Aldermore has appointed Rania Pugh as its new head of sales support for asset...

New identity for Promise Solutions

Promise Solutions has rebranded the business as Promise Money. The packager and master broker is...

Shawbrook returns to partial pre-Covid criteria

Shawbrook’s property division has confirmed that it has returned to some of its pre-pandemic...

Funding 365 unveils development finance product

Bridging lender Funding 365 has moved into development finance with the launch of its...

Covid-19: specialist brokers remain optimistic

Shawbrook’s most recent Broker Barometer has revealed that as the UK emerges from the...

CSF appoints group sales and marketing director

Jason Berry has been appointed group sales and marketing director at Crystal Specialist Finance...

Bridging lender moves into 75% LTV space

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has launched new rates for its bridging loans, now offering...

Two new hires for UTB

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed a new director and manager in its development...

Bibby Financial Services appoints global CEO

Jonathan Andrew is to join Bibby Financial Services as global CEO on 1 September. Andrew...

Lender raises £42m in funding

Selina Finance has completed a £42 million Series A fundraising round. The funding includes £12...

LendInvest unveils new structured property finance team

LendInvest has launched a new structured property finance team in order to provide a...

Secure Trust Bank achieves £5bn in invoice finance

The commercial finance arm of Secure Trust Bank has surpassed £5bn of invoices funded...

Allica Bank appoints new business relationship manager

Allica Bank has announced the internal appointment of Jonathan Prince as business relationship manager...

BFS backs first-time developer

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has provided support to a fledgling developer, providing a £350,000...
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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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