Commercial

Shawbrook shifts asset finance focus with intermediaries

Shawbrook Bank is re-shaping its approach to working with commercial finance introducers in the...

LendInvest appoints fund manager

LendInvest has announced the appointment of former CBRE senior director and head of loan...

Large number of SMEs being declined property finance

A new study for specialist lender Together has indicated that hundreds of thousands of...

Yellow Stone finance appoints head of sales

Yellow Stone Finance has recruited Mike Kelsey to become its head of sales. Kelsey has...

BFS provides £500k funding line to ventilation specialist

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has provided a £500,000 funding facility to FEL Group Ltd....

Assetz Capital unveils 1% cashback offer for investors

Assetz Capital has surpassed the £1bn mark for lending to SMEs and housebuilders across...

Together funds Blackpool entrepreneur

Specialist lender Together has provided a £1.59m commercial mortgage to a chip shop owner...

Accredo joins FIBA lender panel

Commercial finance trade body, FIBA, has announced the appointment of specialist lender, Accredo, to...

Lightfoots Solicitors joins ASTL

Lightfoots Solicitors is the latest professional organisation to become an associate member of the...

Sirius Property Finance becomes Brightstar Group subsidiary

Sirius Property Finance is moving from being a wholly owned subsidiary of Brightstar Financial...

100 lenders now on Pitch for Finance platform

Pitch 4 Finance has revealed that 100 lenders are now able to pitch for...

SME owners using personal savings to support businesses

39% of UK SMEs encountered financial challenges over the past 12 months, according to...

Kingsway unveils new secured commercial loan product

Kingsway Asset Finance has announced an extension to their commercial loan product portfolio. The Cheshire-based...

Two new hires for Nucleus Commercial Finance ABL team

Nucleus Commercial Finance has expanded its Asset Based Lending team (ABL) with the appointment...

COMMENT

Busting the myths that stop homeowners protecting their income

In my role at LifeSearch, I spend a lot of time talking to mortgage advisers, brokers, and, increasingly, customers directly. One thing comes up time...

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

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Busting the myths that stop homeowners protecting their income

In my role at LifeSearch, I spend a lot of time talking to mortgage...

First-time buyers turning to side hustles to bridge deposit gap

Almost half of aspiring first-time buyers are using secondary income streams to help fund...

Vida cuts residential rates and loosens criteria for self-employed and contractor borrowers

Vida has reduced selected residential mortgage rates by up to 106 basis points and...

Iress adds AI underwriting tool to The Exchange in protection push

Iress has struck a deal with The Interesting Life Company to offer an AI-powered...

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