Commercial

SMG offers free CRM migration to other packagers

Specialist Mortgage Group (SMG) is offering other packagers access to its online CRM with...

Fiduciam to expand north and south of Irish border

Fiduciam Ireland has seen a substantial increase in new business, both north and south...

UTB sees 21% increase in new lending in 2019

United Trust Bank (UTB) has reported a 21% increase in new lending in 2019,...

Shawbrook becomes helideck lending partner

Helideck Certification Agency (HCA), an authority on the safe and compliant operation of onshore,...

Metro Bank in SME finance tie-up

Metro Bank has announced a new partnership with Lending-as-a-Service (LaaS) provider Ezbob to offer...

Foundation Home Loans partners with Y3S B&C

Foundation Home Loans has announced a new agreement with specialist finance packager, Y3S Bridging...

FIBA sees increase in PI enquiries

The Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA) is witnessing a rise in enquiries from...

BUDGET: small business support

The government announced plans to support small businesses in the Budget today. The Chancellor, Rishi...

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...

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...

Latest news

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...

Impaired credit mortgage sales rise to highest level since 2008

Mortgage lending to borrowers with impaired credit histories has climbed to levels not seen...

Councils to gain earlier powers over long-term empty homes

Councils will be able to intervene when homes have stood empty for six months...

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