Commercial

Aldermore: planning proposals will benefit SME builders

Aldermore has welcomed a parliamentary report into ways to improve the planning system in the...

YBS adds limited company holiday let product

YBS Commercial Mortgages has unveiled a new limited company buy-to-let product aimed specifically at...

Allica Bank appoints asset finance BDM

Allica Bank has announced the appointment of Brandon Hall as senior business development manager...

“Vast majority” of brokers open for business

53% of property and commercial finance brokers responding to United Trust Bank’s most recent...

Majority of brokers at 100% of pre-Covid capacity

53% of property and commercial finance brokers responding to United Trust Bank’s most recent...

Reward Finance Group joins NACFB

Reward Finance Group has joined the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB). The NCFB...

BFS provided £40m of new corporate funding in June

Invoice financier, Bibby Financial Services (BFS), provided £40m in new funding facilities to corporate...

FIBA presents lender partner video interviews

FIBA, the specialist finance trade body, has announced the latest series of interviews with...

Lendlord produces investor deal analysis tool

Lendlord has unveiled an improved Property Deal Analyser as part of its portfolio management...

Aldermore makes senior real estate appointment

Aldermore has appointed Iain Bryson as its new head of development and specialist property...

Aldermore creates new commercial director for asset finance role

Aldermore Bank has the role of commercial director, asset finance sales, with the commercial...

UTB launches asset refinance and acquisition CBILS products for SMEs

United Trust Bank has launched a range of Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS)...

First 4 Bridging adds Hampshire Trust Bank to panel

First 4 Bridging (F4B) has announced the addition of Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) to...

Double Manchester milestone for Reward Finance Group

Alternative finance provider, Reward Finance Group, has marked the first anniversary of the opening...

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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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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