Commercial

Name change for Connect Mortgage Club

Connect Mortgage Club will now be known as Connect for Intermediaries. The firm said its...

Shawbrook promotes new regional development manager

Shawbrook Bank has announced the promotion of Steve Matthews to the role of regional...

Amicus unveils new commercial business

Amicus Finance is to launch a new commercial finance business, aimed at serving the...

Fleet sets new lending target for 2016

Fleet Mortgages has said it will hit its lending targets for 2015. In the...

Strong September for Shawbrook

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

Y3S Group posts £1.7m profit

Y3S Group has reported a combined net profit before taxation of £1.7m on total revenues...

Oblix Capital hires head of credit

Bridging and development finance provider Oblix Capital has appointed Tom Reeve as head of credit....

Promise reports surge in commercial business

Master broker Promise Solutions has reported a 200% increase in new business in its commercial...

Shawbrook makes commercial fee changes

Shawbrook Bank has implemented a re-structure of its commercial mortgage costing model for re-finance...

Shawbrook announces strong results

Shawbrook Group plc has published its third quarter results, reporting a 68% rise in underlying...

Development broker refreshes brand image

Development and bridging broker Positive Commercial Finance has updated its brand image. It wanted a brand identity...

Paragon completes asset finance acquisition

Paragon Bank has completed its acquisition of Five Arrows Leasing Group for £117 million.   Five Arrows...

4% rise in commercial rents expected

UK businesses are predicted to face further financial pressures, with commercial rents expected to...

Roma Finance hires introducer relationship manager

Roma Finance has announced the appointment of Vicki Ineson as relationship manager. The appointment comes...

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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