Commercial

Five-day completion for HNW Lending

HNW Lending has completed a property loan for a developer in five days from...

InterBay and Impact partner for £6m of commercial finance

InterBay Commercial has teamed with Impact Specialist Financial to provide just under £6m of...

Shawbrook seeks to increase repeat commercial borrowing

Shawbrook has clarified to its broker partners its appetite to lend to repeat borrows...

Oblix Capital completes its largest Scottish deal to date

Oblix Capital has completed on a £4.06 million commercial bridge in Edinburgh. The facility was...

Majority of brokers don’t expect Brexit deal by 29 March

57% of brokers responding to United Trust Bank’s most recent Broker Sentiment poll don’t...

Aldermore selects Mind as 2019 charity

Aldermore has chosen Mind as its Charity of the Year for 2019 after a...

New development finance lender client for Phoebus

Phoebus Software has revealed that development finance lender, Business Lending Group (BLG), has gone...

Aldermore provides its largest development loan to date

Aldermore has provided a £22.9m property development loan to Queensberry Properties Ltd, in its...

UK property investors stay upbeat despite uncertainty

The majority of property professionals in the UK are set to expand their portfolios...

Glenhawk plans launch of homeowner products in 2019

Glenhawk has announced that following a strong January which has seen it lend more...

SME lender removes need for personal guarantees

Scottish Pacific Business Finance has announced that SMEs are now able to apply for...

Oblix Capital completes £5.03m development loan

Oblix Capital has provided a £5.03m facility to fund the development of six luxury...

CODE Investing makes board appointments

SME debt finance platform, CODE Investing, has appointed Borro chairman, John Allbrook, as a...

“Brexit linked downturn” looming for SMEs

The latest SME Confidence Tracker from Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has concluded that SMEs...

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...

Latest news

CHL cuts buy-to-let rates by up to 25bps

CHL Mortgages has reduced rates across its short-term let and limited edition buy-to-let ranges. The...

Darlington cuts rates across buy-to-let and specialist ranges

Darlington Building Society has reduced mortgage rates by up to 50bps across its buy-to-let,...

HTB backs £2.4m Mitcham scheme

Hampshire Trust Bank has provided a £2.4m development finance facility for a mixed-use scheme in...

The Mansfield reports record mortgage lending for second year running

Mansfield Building Society has reported record mortgage lending for the second successive year, after...

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