Commercial

HTB provides £12.5m loan for NE designer shopping village

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a £12.5 million loan facility to support the...

MFS secures extended funding lines

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has renewed and increased the size of a series of...

Sourcing funding is greatest difficulty for developers

New research from Shawbrook has found that property developers say funding is their key...

Q&A: James Cassidy, Sirius Finance

BestAdvice fires the questions at James Cassidy, associate at Sirius Finance. BestAdvice (BA): It’s now...

Gosai returns to Brilliant Solutions

Brilliant Solutions has announced the appointment of Sonny Gosai as bridging & commercial director....

SPF Private Clients hires head of asset finance

SPF Private Clients has announced that Charlie Jenkins has joined as head of asset...

Record month for development finance at HTB

HTB's development finance team has reported a new completions record, with June marking the...

Redwood Bank makes BDM promotion

Redwood Bank has promoted Sam Taylor to the role of business development manager (BDM)...

Geo-energy firm secures £500k funding

A Leeds-based firm dedicated to locating subsurface energy and mineral resources to reduce the...

DF Capital secures further British Business Bank funding

The British Business Bank has agreed a second portfolio increase of £100m to specialist...

HTB finances £25m deal for new Leeds neighbourhood

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a £25 million deal with GMV Twelve for...

The rising value of the semi-commercial sector

There’s always a huge amount of talk around the ‘next big thing’ in any...

Shawbrook unveils ‘Switch & Fix’ for existing customers

Shawbrook has introduced ‘Switch & Fix’, a streamlined refinance process to help existing customers...

UTB makes trio of property development appointments

United Trust Bank (UTB) has announced three new appointments in its property development team. The...

COMMENT

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

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...

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ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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