Commercial

How brokers can build a marketing campaign

I believe that marketing is best described as a vehicle with which to communicate...

United Trust Bank makes sales appointment

United Trust Bank has appointed Nick Warren as a business development manager in...

Metro Bank SME Finance launches

Metro Bank has launched the new Metro Bank SME Finance brand, following the acquisition...

Fifth birthday for Aldermore

Aldermore is celebrating five years of providing banking services to SMEs, homeowners and savers...

Funding Circle expands business development team

Funding Circle reached a major milestone in the first quarter of this year, with...

iState Systems powers P2P property lending auction

Peer-to-peer exchange Relendex has claimed a world record for real estate debt in a...

Bibby appoints head of sales

Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has appointed Dan Burton as its head of sales for...

Shawbrook commercial legal network launches

A network of law firms available to act for borrowers has been set...

Important hire for Bibby

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed former Lloyds Commercial Finance Client and Collateral Management...

Lloyds lent £342m under Help to Buy

Lloyds Banking Group has reported underlying profit increased 22% to £1.8 billion in the...

“Blistering” start to year for Crystal Mortgages

Crystal Mortgages has reported commercial finance application numbers between January to March higher than...

Does development finance popularity show market is overheating?

In the past month or so I’ve seen an increasing amount written in the...

Rise in company liquidations

Insolvency Service data out today show that company liquidations in England and Wales in...

Strong rise in mortgage lending for Santander UK

Santander UK has reported gross residential mortgage lending of £5.7bn for the first quarter...

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Why predicting 2025 interest rates feels like a fool’s errand

In my first (and for some reason clearly not my last) article last month, I attempted (perhaps foolishly) to discuss where rates might go...

Helping university students onto the property ladder

As we head towards the Easter break, thousands of first-year university students up and down the country will be preparing for exams and making...

Lenders must step up on high LTV products

Things are on the up for borrowers with a smaller deposit. The financial information website Moneyfacts publishes a regular update on mortgage product numbers,...

Why it matters that bridging hit more than £10bn last year

We see many numbers bandied around in the financial industry, which can sometimes have a numbing effect. So why should we all, especially brokers, care...

Top five reasons why renters should consider short-term protection insurance

In an unpredictable world, financial security can often feel like a luxury, especially for renters who may already juggle living expenses, rent payments, and...

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Seven out of 10 homebuyers likely to miss stamp duty deadline

Seven out of 10 (71%) homebuyers with accepted offers expect to miss the 31st...

First-time buyer mortgage sales declined in London over the past decade

First-time buyer mortgage sales in London declined significantly between 2013 and 2023, as increasing...

UTB appoints BDM for the north and Scotland

Fran Arnold has joined the sales team at United Trust Bank Mortgages as business...

International demand for UK property investment ‘more diverse than expected’

The UK property market is attracting investment from a much broader range of international...