Commercial

Mint Bridging partners to create syndicated division

Mint Bridging has entered into a joint venture with Mark Abrahams, a founder of...

BFS makes Sheffield sales hire

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Daniel Harding as head of sales for Sheffield. The...

Key appointments to Together’s leadership team

Specialist lender Together has made two senior appointments to its leadership team. The group of...

Lorenzo Satchell rejoins Together

Specialist lender Together has appointed Lorenzo Satchell has its new commercial relationship manager for...

Shawbrook promotes HMO valuation framework

New research from Shawbrook Bank suggests that 53% of property investors are looking to enter or expand in the...

Clever Lending joins HLP panel 

Clever Lending has joined the HomeLoan Partnership (HLP) network as a provider of second...

Bibby boosts its Manchester business funding

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has increased its funding to Manchester businesses by 26%, as it...

NACFB celebrates record growth levels

The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) has revealed that it now works...

BFS bolsters its Yorkshire and Humber business funding

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has increased its funding to Yorkshire & Humber businesses by...

Funding Circle expands business development team

Funding Circle has hired Neil Mullane, formerly head of business and corporate banking for...

Shawbrook unveils digital application process

Shawbrook Bank Commercial Mortgages has launched a new digital application service – E-AIP -...

BFS grows its Birmingham business funding

SME funder, Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has increased its funding to Birmingham businesses by...

P2P provider appoints Target

Target Group has been appointed to provide standby servicing to Ratesetter, a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform....

Together celebrates best ever month for lending

Together has revealed that it completed £105 million new lending in March 2016, with...

COMMENT

Removing friction from the homebuying journey

One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...

Build, baby, build? Well we will need to fund more than the usual suspects

There was a noticeable sense of optimism at UKREiiF this year. That may sound surprising given the economic headwinds of recent years, but the...

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market riding high

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market has created real value for customers – there’s no excuse to ignore it. When a UK borrower reaches 55,...

How small and medium-sized lenders can fix the origination headache

We are constantly told that to fix the mortgage journey, we need to rip everything out and start again. That unless a lender replaces its...

A new PM brings a new opportunity to rethink housing policy

Politics, as it seems to do in recent times, has moved at remarkable speed over the last couple of weeks. In what feels like...

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West Brom launches interest-only and discounted products

West Brom Building Society has launched new interest-only and discount variable products and reduced...

The Right Academy targets 100 trainee advisers after strong start

The Right Academy, the specialist training programme from The Right Mortgage & Protection Network,...

Furness BS reports record app-to-offer rates

Furness Building Society is reporting record app-to-offer rates as it continues to roll out...

TMG boss gives staff day off after England’s 1am World Cup clash

TMG mortgage network founder and CEO Scott Thorpe has given all staff an extra...

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