Commercial

Rob Lankey to join Shawbrook

Rob Lankey has been appointed by Shawbrook Bank to the position of director of...

Impact Specialist Finance grows commercial finance team

Impact Specialist Finance has appointed ex-senior HSBC corporate relationship director Clive Smith as a...

Forget Brexit – the development fundamentals haven’t changed

There’s no doubt about it, it’s certainly been a newsworthy couple of weeks when...

West One Loans provides £5.5m development finance facility

West One Loans has teamed up with venture capital group ME Developments for a...

Aldermore passes £1bn development lending milestone

Aldermore has surpassed £1bn in property development loans following a surge in demand from...

Female SME business owners say they struggle to be taken seriously

17% of female bosses at UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), or 307,900 firms...

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...

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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ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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