Commercial

Shawbrook cuts rates across its real estate product offering

Shawbrook has announced a wide range of rate reductions across its real estate product...

Adrian Moloney joins InterBay board

Adrian Moloney, group intermediary director at OSB Group, has been appointed to the board...

Brightstar partners with LIBF to deliver CPSP

The Brightstar Group is adopting a group-wide strategy to support team members achieve the...

Time Finance expands relationship management team

Time Finance has announced the appointment of Jonathan Johnson as relationship manager in its...

Allica Bank cuts fixed rate mortgage pricing

Allica Bank has reduced the pricing for all its fixed rate mortgages by up...

InterBay relaunches commercial and semi-commercial ranges

InterBay, part of OSB Group, has relaunched its full product range with reduced rates...

UTB recruits business development manager – deposits

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed Niki Cole to the role of business development...

Norton Broker Services unveils unsecured business finance

Norton Broker Services has launched an unsecured business finance proposition designed to help brokers...

HTB expands BTL product range and reduces rates

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has broadened its specialist buy-to-let and semi-commercial mortgage range and...

OSB Group makes key personnel changes

OSB Group has introduced a new senior sales structure, designed to support its intermediary...

Sharp rise in time and cost of planning permission for SMEs

Research commissioned by the Land, Planning and Development Federation (LPDF) and United Trust Bank...

FIBA unveils partnership with HSBC

The Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA) has announced that HSBC has joined the...

Optimum Finance appoints risk and recoveries manager

Optimum Finance has appointed Steve Chapman to manage and lead its risk and recoveries...

Brokers more optimistic about year ahead than 12 months ago

Crystal Specialist Finance has surveyed over 10,000 brokers for the second year running and...

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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...