Commercial

£150m funding for LendInvest

LendInvest has secured £150 million of initial funding from investment bank Nomur and alternative...

Connect bolsters commercial lending team

Connect for Intermediaries has appointed a commercial lending specialist to its commercial team. Gareth Norman...

Subsea technology innovator secures £500k growth funding

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has provided a £500,000 export finance facility to Subsea Technologies...

Reward funds nursery acquisition

The Go Wild Bury Private Day Nursery & Creche is now operating under new...

Clear majority of SMEs lack succession plan

64% of bosses of UK’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) do not have a...

IGF increases UK SME lending by 76%

Commercial finance provider Independent Growth Finance (IGF) has reported year-on-year growth in the year to June 2018, with...

Brokers fear further base rate increases

United Trust Bank’s most recent broker sentiment survey has found that 70% of brokers...

Brokers “have never had a better opportunity to diversify”

Chirag Shah, CEO at Nucleus Commercial Finance, has claimed that brokers have never had...

Octopus Property increases regional lending

Specialist property lender Octopus Property has agreed to provide four commercial loans, totalling £35.2...

“Fundamental shift” in the development sector

Specialist packager Thistle Finance has reported a 9% fall in the average size of development finance loan...

Brokers expect lender credit policies to stay the same

A recent broker sentiment survey from United Trust Bank has revealed that around 57%...

VAS Group joins FIBA Professional Partners Panel

VAS Group has become the first valuation panel management and auditing company to join...

Bibby funds £3m MBO in Yorkshire

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has provided £3m in funding to support the management team...

BFS backs new audiophile speaker manufacturer

Bibby Financial Services has provided an £850,000 funding facility to FYNE AUDIO, a new...

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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