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Hampshire Trust Bank hires new development finance lending director

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Alan Coleman as lending director...

Understanding homeowner business loans

One of the main challenges of setting up or running a new business is...

Norton Broker Services unveils partnership with new short-term lender

Norton Broker Services has been appointed to the panel of StreamBank, assisting the new...

Allica Bank hires asset finance BDM for Scotland

Allica Bank has appointed Emma Lindsay as business development manager (BDM) for asset finance...

Inaugural development finance masterclass hailed a success by HTB

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) held its first Development Finance Masterclass event for brokers on...

Paragon Bank provides Newett Homes with £5.45m revolving loan facility

Yorkshire-based housebuilder Newett Homes has secured a £5.45 million revolving loan facility from Paragon...

Reward raises £32k for PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide

A year-long fundraising programme across Reward Finance Group’s offices has raised £32,000 for its...

HTB appoints new development finance lending director

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Jessica Winstone-Adair as lending director...

Reverse takeover planned for Redwood Bank

Redwood Bank’s parent company, Redwood Financial Partners Ltd (RFPL) has signed Heads of Terms...

Shawbrook makes improvements to commercial mortgage offering

Shawbrook has made major changes to its core commercial mortgage proposition. The specialist lender has...

Hope Capital simplifies product proposition

Short-term lender, Hope Capital, has streamlined its proposition to make it easier for brokers...

Somo becomes NACFB patron

Somo Bridging has become a patron lender of the National Association of Commercial Finance...

Envelop reports longer-term specialist business uplift from rebrand

Envelop has reported a "substantial" uplift in the amount of longer-term specialist business written...

Sarah Dix joins HTB as development finance lending director

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Sarah Dix as lending director within...

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Heavy refurbishment: structuring finance for complex property upgrades

Investors are rethinking their approach to property - heavy refurbishment is no longer just an option; it’s a necessity for unlocking value in today’s...

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...

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Three-quarters of brokers expect rate hold

76% of specialist brokers expect that the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)...

The Finance Family adopts Acre as platform for growth

Midlands-based The Finance Family has migrated its team of over 20 brokers to Acre’s...

‘Consumer thinking’ holding businesses back from better finance solutions

New research from Time Finance has revealed that many UK businesses default to consumer-style...

British Business Bank reports how pivotal first Covid lockdown was

Five years since the first Covid-19 lockdown, new data from Start Up Loans, part...