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Shawbrook to offer new fixes next month

Shawbrook Bank has revealed it will launch fixed rate products across its commercial mortgage...

Funding Circle offers summer promotion

Funding Circle is offering a "double headed" summer giveaway for introducers. Every introducer has the...

Commercial property owners still losing out on millions

UK commercial property owners lost an estimated £28m in unclaimed tax relief in April,...

How bridging finance is supporting BTL growth

The buy to let sector continues to show significant growth, in direct correlation to...

Shawbrook posts profit and reveals acquisition

Shawbrook Bank has reported a pre-tax profit of £16.8m for the year ending 31st...

Acquisition of distressed assets gaining in popularity

A number of properties and loans coming on the market through insolvent zombie property...

P2P lender seeks new investors to fund growth

HNW Lending, the new peer-to-peer alternative lender that provides individual loans of between £60,000...

SMEs continue to mistrust financial institutions

Despite positive signs of the economic recovery continuing to gather momentum, information from the...

New associate member for ASTL

Robert Sterling Surveyors has become the Association of Short Term Lenders' (ASTL) latest...

Rise in short-term loans for refurb

Property refurbishment projects have seen funding more than double in the last year, according...

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...

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What the agents say: 2026 housing market predictions

Next year should be a year of steady progress for the housing market. After a challenging 2025 where we saw little to no house...

Graham McClelland on Britain’s broken mortgage market

When Graham McClelland, the youthful and quietly intense chief executive of Gen H, arrived at the City of London office of the fast-growing mortgage...

Younger consumers are ready for protection. So why aren’t we reaching them?

For years, the protection market has assumed that younger adults are less engaged with financial risk planning. Yet the latest findings from Bruised Britain...

The buy-to-let market continues to defy expectations

Perception and reality are often mistaken for one another. That is especially true in the buy-to-let market, where sentiment frequently diverges from what is...

Advisers are missing a clear chance to help clients with survey advice

For years, advisers have often seen surveys as something outside their core work. Some did not know enough about them. Some were unsure how...

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MPs launch inquiry into OBR’s first 15 years

The Treasury Committee has launched an inquiry to reflect on the Office for Budget...

Atom backs investor’s move into commercial property with £3m warehouse loan

Atom bank has completed a £3 million commercial mortgage to support an established residential...

CHL Mortgages widens upper LTV range with new fixed-rate options

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has expanded its upper loan-to-value range with a series of...

Swansea Building Society expands West Wales leadership remit

Swansea Building Society has promoted Sioned Jones to area manager, West Wales, with effect...

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