Commercial

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...

Record month for Octopus Property

Octopus Property has reported record monthly lending performance for March. Under the leadership of Mario Berti, Octopus...

LendInvest unveils pre-construction product

LendInvest has launched a new pre-construction finance product, aimed at property professionals seeking to...

Landlord and investor confidence remains high

Shawbrook Bank’s latest Client Barometer has found that landlords and property investors are broadly...

BFS appoints UK CEO

Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has appointed Edward Winterton as UK chief executive officer. He joining...

Brokers expect development finance demand rise

A broker sentiment survey, carried out in January this year by specialist lender United...

Real estate loans up at the Cambridge & Counties Bank

The Cambridge & Counties Bank saw its property lending balances grow by £167 million...

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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