Commercial

Secure Trust Bank provides £12m facility to window firm

Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance has backed UK Window Group with a £12m asset-based...

United Trust Bank makes asset finance underwriting hire

United Trust Bank has appointed Giles Hussey to join the underwriting team in the...

Crystal Specialist Finance partners with Beneficial network

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has been appointed to the Beneficial network panel to deliver...

Octane Capital makes sales support team appointment

Ryan Houssart has become the latest member of Octane Capital's sales support team. He joins...

Reward Finance Group joins FIBA

Specialist finance trade body, the Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA), has added Reward...

First 4 Bridging adds Castle Trust to panel

Specialist distributor First 4 Bridging (F4B) has announced the addition of Castle Trust to...

LendInvest funds £12m development project

LendInvest has financed a £12 million development finance loan in under eight weeks, with...

Fiduciam funds acquisition spanning three jurisdictions

Bridging lender Fiduciam has financed a complex cross-border loan with a transaction value of...

Brightstar maintains Best Small Company rating

The Brightstar Group has been named as the number one Best Small Company to...

Commercial provider adopts managed IT services

Asset finance and commercial loans provider, Bluestar Leasing, has invested in a suite of...

Immigration policy ‘could hit real estate growth’

Oblix Capital has warned that the government’s plan for a new UK points-based immigration...

Octane Capital revises refurbishment range

Octane Capital has increased the level of works permitted from 50% up to 100%+...

Funding 365 issues flexible three-year range

Funding 365 has simplified and improved its flexible three-year and bridge to three-year property...

Oblix Capital unveils ‘quick quote’ calculator

Specialist lender Oblix Capital has launched a new development finance ‘quick quote’ calculator. It is...

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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