Commercial

New HQ for asset finance lender

Praetura Asset Finance is moving to larger premises following expansion as well as planning...

Assetz Capital breaks £700m SME lending barrier

Peer-to-peer lender Assetz Capital has now lent more than £700m to SMEs and property...

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...

COMMENT

With great power comes great responsibility

There has been a huge amount in the press about the “feudal” system of leasehold and how the government’s revitalised commonhold will fix all...

Don’t rein me in

For many years, major financial institutions and large retailers have understood the benefits of presenting their customers with complementary products alongside their core offering. Banks...

More questions now surround the home moving digital journey

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has published its highly anticipated Home Buying and Selling Reform Roadmap, representing the most aggressive...

Stability has value: why the latest Bank Base Rate hold matters

The Bank of England's decision to maintain Bank Base Rate (BBR) at 3.75% may not have generated the excitement that often accompanies a rate...

If you motivate an idiot you just get stupid things done quicker

There's a lot of excitement about artificial intelligence in the mortgage industry right now. Nearly nine in 10 mortgage brokers want technology to play...

Latest news

The West Brom promotes Gareth Madeley to chief customer officer

West Brom Building Society has appointed Gareth Madeley as its new chief customer officer,...

Industry leaders unite behind MIMHC Lunch

HSBC UK, Virgin Money, Nottingham Building Society, Landbay and top broker firms Mortgage Advice...

Santander raises foreign national mortgage lending to 90% LTV

Santander UK has expanded its foreign national mortgage policy by increasing the maximum loan-to-value...

Keystone passes £2bn in securitisation issuance with sixth Hops Hill deal

Keystone Property Finance has completed its sixth securitisation, taking total issuance under its Hops...

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