Commercial

Reward Finance doubles lending capability

Reward Finance Group has received a £40m investment from Foresight Group. The investment will double...

Signature backs £6m Penarth development

RH Properties (RHP) is set to soon complete the £6 million transformation of a...

Octane Capital moves into development arena

Octane Capital has launched its development arm and hired Alex Tyrwhitt as head of development...

BFS extends mid-market business funding capabilities

Invoice finance provider, Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has increased its funding for mid-market businesses...

Reward Finance sets new lending record

Reward Finance Group has advanced £8m across 20 deals in just 10 working days, beating...

One-fifth of brokers expect 2017 rate rise

A United Trust Bank poll has found that 21% of brokers believe that the...

Aegon and Funding Circle agree long term partnership

Aegon and Funding Circle have announced a strategic long term partnership designed to support...

Asset finance up 16%

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

LendInvest hires its first BDM for Southern England

LendInvest has appointed Andy Virgo as its first business development manager (BDM) for the...

Metro Bank in £10m care funding deal

Metro Bank has provided Capital Care Group with over £10.2 million in funding, which...

FP Show expands lending remit

The Finance Professional Show (FP Show) will take place on 8 November at Olympia in...

RM Secured Direct Lending invests in asset finance sector

RM Secured Direct Lending (RMDL) is to lend up to £10 million in loans...

Record month for Amicus Property Finance

Amicus Property Finance has announced a record month of lending in July at £72...

Trio of new broker BDMs for Together

Together has appointed three new business development managers to cover the North East, London...

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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