Commercial

InterBay unveils interest-only commercial investment option

InterBay Commercial has made new changes to its pricing and criteria for commercial investment. Following...

New associate member for the ASTL

CG Recovery has joined the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) as an associate...

Commercial finance, tax hikes and corporate structures

There has been much debate in the industry around whether or not setting up...

EQUIS reports 30% increase in loans written

EQUIS has revealed that its members wrote loans worth over £1.1 billion in 2015, representing...

2015 a “brilliant year” for the bridging sector

The latest West One Bridging Index has found that gross annual bridging lending surpassed...

Shawbrook Bank to follow diversification strategy

Shawbrook Bank plc has reported a 63% increase in underlying profit by to over...

Business lender reaches £100m milestone

EZBob Ltd, which trades as business 'e-lenders' Everline and ezbob, has announced it has...

Shawbrook joins trade body

Shawbrook Bank, has become the latest member of the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL). This takes...

Bridging lender cuts commercial loan rate

Funding 365 has made at cut in the starting interest rate for its commercial bridging loan product...

Dragonfly lending “rapidly and at scale”

Dragonfly Property Finance has completed 10 development finance loans, with a gross development value...

New identity for Omni Capital

Omni Capital Partners Limited has changed its name to Fortwell Capital Limited. There is no...

Packager to hold south coast buy-to-let event

Complete FS has announced the first of a series of seminars designed to help...

Bridging lender unveils forward funding product

Hope Capital has launched a new bridging loan for developers. The 'Marketing Bridge' is designed...

Shawbrook appoints operational support head

Kate Wilson has been promoted by Shawbrook Bank’s commercial mortgages division to become its new head...

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...

Latest news

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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