Commercial

P2P lender appoints non-executive director

Peer-to-peer lender CrowdProperty has announced that John Mould, former CEO of ESF Capital &...

Whisky distillery secures £3.5m ABL deal

Whisky maker The Lakes Distillery has received a £3.5 million asset-based lending facility from...

One Stop Business Finance expands BD team

SME funder One Stop Business Finance (OSBF) has expanded its client servicing team with...

Robert Sinclair: “I fear for non-bank lenders”

The chief executive of the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries has warned that the coronavirus...

Roma Finance stops new business lending

Bridging, buy-to-let and development finance lender, Roma Finance, has temporarily stopped accepting new business...

Fiducia Group launches new asset finance division

Fiducia Group has unveiled a new asset finance division offering bespoke funding solutions to...

Fast support for businesses called for

Research undertaken just prior to Coronavirus hitting, showed that over 2.6 million UK SMEs...

FLA reports January new business growth

New figures released by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that FLA members...

Octane Capital completes four deals in past 24 hours

Octane Capital says it will continue to support its broker partners as normally as possible...

Castle Trust sees largest ever day for completions

Castle Trust has reported its biggest ever day, with completions totalling £17.7m, including two...

YBS Commercial joins FIBA panel

Specialist finance trade body, FIBA, has announced the appointment of YBS Commercial to its...

Roma Finance criteria available on Knowledge Bank

Bridging, buy-to-let and development finance lender, Roma Finance, has added its criteria to the...

Together provides £1m+ bridging loan for Manchester development

Specialist lender Together has provided a short-term loan of more than £1 million for...

Covid-19: income streaming provider waives NHS fees

Income streaming provider Wagestream has waived all fees to both NHS employers and staff...

COMMENT

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...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

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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...

Precise cuts residential mortgage offer times with new platform

Precise has launched a residential mortgage platform after a pilot reduced average application-to-offer times...

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