Commercial

Together increases securitisation from £255m to £500m

Together Financial Services Limited has increased its revolving Lakeside Asset Backed Securitisation 1 Limited...

Commercial landlords reveal areas for opportunity in UK

Commercial landlords believe the North of England and the East Midlands will provide the...

BFS maintains Merseyside presence during growth period

Wirral-based Bridging Finance Solutions has continued to consolidate its presence within Merseyside, with 25%...

FLA appoints new director general

Stephen Haddrill has been appointed as the new director general of the Finance &...

Together provides £7m for housing development

Together has agreed a £7 million funding facility for a luxury family-orientated homes development...

Commercial finance specialist joins Sirius Property Finance

Geoff Vickers has joined the commercial real estate and SME finance team at Sirius...

Signature Private Finance expands lending team

Signature Private Finance has appointed Michelle Walsh to its team of relationship managers. Walsh will be...

Roma Finance completes its largest ever case

Roma Finance has provided a loan of £1.85m in its largest ever case. The loan...

Two lenders jointly fund Sirius property development case

Sirius Property Finance has sourced joint funding for a £14m GDV permitted development scheme...

Construction VAT delay welcomed

Oblix Capital has welcomed HMRC’s decision to delay implementation of the VAT domestic reverse...

Impact Specialist Finance partners with Hampshire Trust Bank

Impact Specialist Finance has agreed an approved packager deal with Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB)...

BFS signs up to SME Finance Charter for Brexit support

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has announced its support for the Business Finance Council’s SME...

Affirmative joins Beneficial’s panel

Bridging and development lender Affirmative is now on panel with the Beneficial adviser network. Members of...

Impact Specialist Finance unveils specialist referral service

Impact Specialist Finance has launched a referral service for its broker partners. The service can...

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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Phoebus completes latest SOC 2 Type II assessment

Phoebus Software has renewed its SOC 2 Type II attestation after KPMG assessed the...

Low-deposit mortgage lending climbs 38% to £24.7bn

Mortgage lending at loan-to-value ratios above 90% rose sharply over the past year as...

Stonebridge reports sharp rise in protection policies placed in trust

The proportion of protection policies being placed in trust has risen substantially over the...

Countrywide Surveying adds 35 newly qualified surveyors in 2026

Countrywide Surveying Services has added 35 newly qualified surveyors to its workforce so far...

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