Commercial

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...

First quarter surge in SME activity

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has recorded the highest level of first quarter output among...

Shawbrook appoints new Strategic Partner

Shawbrook Bank has appointed Commercial Mortgage Desk (CMD) to its Strategic Partner programme. With...

COMMENT

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...

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Why you need to know what sits behind the average review score

There’s a funny thing about review scores. The better they are, the less likely we are to question them. If a company is sitting at...

Latest news

Landbay adds 11 tracker products and cuts rates by up to 15bps

Landbay has expanded its buy-to-let tracker range with 11 new products and reduced rates...

Howden expands in North Wales with Wrexham office

Howden has opened its first commercial insurance office in Wrexham as the broker expands...

UK buyers reluctant to compromise despite affordability pressures

UK homebuyers remain committed to purchasing a property but are less willing than buyers...

Keystone trims buy-to-let fixed rates by up to 15bps

Keystone Property Finance has reduced pricing across a number of its buy-to-let mortgage ranges,...

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