Commercial

Brickflow partners with Together

Brickflow, a marketplace for commercial property finance, has announced a key partnership with Together,...

Colenko launches free valuations and legals promotion

Colenko has launched its Euro Fever promotion, which includes a Euro-themed perk for brokers. The...

Civil Rail Solutions secures £3m BFS funding

Civil Rail Solutions Limited (CRS), a labour supplier for the rail and construction industries,...

Atom bank completes commercial deal in 37 days

Atom bank recently completed a commercial mortgage within 37 working days. MHC Property Limited, an...

Time Finance bolsters business development team

Time Finance has welcomed Donna Lambert as a business development manager (BDM) in its...

Shawbrook unveils three development finance hires

Shawbrook has bolstered its development finance team with three new appointments. The lender has appointed...

JMT Finance completes rapid exit facility

JMT Finance, the commercial property lender, has completed an exit facility for a project...

Atom bank cuts large commercial mortgage rates

Atom bank has announced a series of rate reductions on its commercial mortgage range,...

Optimum Finance appoints senior regional director

Optimum Finance has promoted Paul Green to senior regional director. Green (pictured) will...

Landlords increasingly investing in semi-commercial properties

Landlords are increasingly moving towards semi-commercial property, with applications almost doubling in 2024 compared...

Bathgate supports pub group’s expansion

Bathgate Business Finance has supported the expansion of a local pub group through a...

Time Finance hires invoice finance relationship manager

Time Finance has appointed Georgina Harrison as relationship manager in its invoice finance team. Harrison...

HREF provides £5.4m North West office development loan

Specialist bridging lender Hilco Real Estate Finance (HREF) has completed a £5.4m loan secured...

Rise in business demand for bridging finance

Bridging Trends contributors have reported £196.2 million in bridging loan transactions during the first...

COMMENT

Beyond the Robo-Adviser: why the future of mortgages is ‘Human Plus’

The fintech industry is obsessing over a binary choice: the traditional human broker or the fully automated 'robo-adviser'. But as we navigate the complexities...

Ceasefire boosts sentiment more than mortgage market

What goes up must come down, but for mortgage rates the drop will be notably more gradual than the sharp increase triggered by the...

A surge today, but what comes next for advisers and conveyancing?

March has provided a very clear example of how quickly this market can move when lenders feel the need to take action, with widespread...

Technology adapts so you don’t have to

20 years ago, many brokerages looked and operated in very similar ways. Typically small, local business, many firms focused solely on standard residential mortgage...

Rental barometer shows strength, but March changes the tone

Looking at our recently published Q1 2026 Rental Barometer data in isolation, there is clearly a strong and positive story to tell. Average rental...

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NPS Law joins My Legal Club conveyancing panel

NPS Law has joined My Legal Club’s UK conveyancing panel following a review of...

Barclays loosens affordability rules for residential and buy-to-let borrowers

Barclays has changed its affordability calculations for residential and buy-to-let mortgages, in a move...

Conveyancing fees tick up in Q1 but remain flat over past 12 months

The cost of conveyancing services rose modestly in the first quarter of 2026, although...

Bath BS introduces valuation engine to speed up mortgage decisions

Bath Building Society has launched a new property decisioning engine aimed at cutting delays...

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