Commercial

Developers welcome decision to extend PDR legislation

74% of property developers expect to see an increase in the number of conversions...

Funding 365 cuts commercial bridging rates

Bridging lender Funding 365 has reduced the starting interest rate for its commercial bridging...

Castle Trust completes £13m development deal

Castle Trust Capital has completed a £13.2 million development loan with Brightstar Financial. The deal...

Refurbishment finance milestone for LendInvest

LendInvest has completed its first Refurbishment Finance loan for an experienced developer in Scotland. The specialist...

Birthday for P2P platform

Peer-to-peer alternative finance platform Assetz Capital is celebrating its fourth birthday.   In the past four...

Two more departures at Fortwell Capital

Fortwell Capital have announced that its sales director, Martin Gilsenan and business development manager,...

Octopus strengthens relationship with Black Book Finance

Octopus Property has completed £6.4m of loans for new distributor Black Book Finance within...

Bob Sturges leaves Fortwell Capital

Bob Sturges is leaving Fortwell Capital after six years at the lender. The communications specialist...

Funding Circle signals end of development lending

Funding Circle is to focus on its core small business lending product in the...

CSF hires development finance director

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has appointed Michael Fisher as development finance director. The business intends to...

Aldermore refreshes commercial mortgage offering

Aldermore has revised its commercial investment and commercial owner-occupied mortgage range. There is now a...

Colin Sanders leaves Fortwell Capital

Colin Sanders is leaving the CPC-owned lender Fortwell Capital after six years at the...

Solid February for asset finance

Latest figures from the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that asset finance new...

Metro Bank hires commercial banking director

Metro Bank has appointed Alec Viney to the position of commercial banking director. He...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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