Commercial

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...

BFS appoints corporate sales director

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Ben Smith as UK corporate sales director. First joining...

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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