Commercial

Cost of small business disruption calculated

Over 550,000 small businesses in the UK have been forced to halt trading due to...

LendInvest Development Finance counts the miles

LendInvest has revealed that its development finance team has travelled over 2,500 miles in...

£12k cost of starting a new business

The average cost of starting up a new business is £12,601, according to new...

Shawbrook continues commercial partner days

Shawbrook Bank's commercial mortgage team has welcomed over a hundred brokers to its annual...

Atom Bank joins Connect panel

Connect for Intermediaries has added Atom Bank to its mortgage lender panel. The specialist buy-to-let...

Ultimate Finance makes senior appointment in Leeds

Ultimate Finance has appointed Jamie Hunt as a regional director within its Leeds office. He...

Major rebrand for short-term lender

Dragonfly Property Finance has rebranded to Octopus Property. Octopus Property is the newest division of...

RBS denies profiteering from struggling businesses

The Royal Bank of Scotland's turnaround division tried to profit from struggling businesses following...

DM Hall hires commercial property surveying pair

DM Hall has recruited two new Aberdeen-based commercial property surveyors to senior roles. Kevin Jackson joins as...

BFS revamps development finance package

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has restructured and relaunched a finance package designed specifically for...

Aldermore hires business development head

Aldermore has announced the appointment of Stuart Baty as head of business development –...

Specialist finance requires specialists

There is much talk of specialist lending within the marketplace at present and it’s...

Brightstar launches HNW division

Brightstar Financial has announced the launch of Sirius Private Clients, a new division that will...

Together features in Top Track 250

Together has been included in The Sunday Times/Grant Thornton Top Track 250 for 2016,...

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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