Commercial

New member for the ASTL

Fiducial has become the latest company to join the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL). ...

Bibby appoints international CEO

Bibby Financial Services has announced that Steven Box has become its international chief executive...

Fleet Mortgages reveals first year lending stats

Fleet Mortgages has announced that £1.2 billion of business "flowed through its system" in its first...

Shawbrook cuts Residential Refurbishment rates

Shawbrook Bank has made a number of pricing and criteria changes to its Residential Refurbishment (RR) range. This follows the...

Together in major recruitment drive

Specialist lender Together is holding an open evening at its head office in Cheadle on...

Shawbrook appoints consumer finance MD

Evelyn Hamilton has today joined Shawbrook Group as its managing director of consumer finance. She joins Shawbrook...

Commercial property specialist joins Birketts

Julie Hoy has joined the commercial property team at law firm Birketts as a...

Shawbrook posts commercial SLA results for December

Shawbrook Bank’s commercial mortgages division has published its service level agreement (SLA) figures for December...

PRA bans and fines Co-op Bank pair

The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has banned Barry Tootell, the former CEO of the...

Commercial outlook for 2016 remains positive

Brokers believes that regulatory changes will be top of of the list of challenges...

Dragonfly celebrates best ever month

Dragonfly Property Finance has revealed that it had its biggest month ever in December...

Strong monthly growth in asset finance

Asset finance new business (primarily leasing and hire purchase) grew by 10% in November...

Shawbrook unveils new residential investment deals

Shawbrook Bank has made changes to its Residential Investment range, including new products and...

BFS boosts business funding in Liverpool

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has reported an increase in its funding to Liverpool businesses...

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...

Latest news

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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