Commercial

Shawbrook cuts rates across its real estate product offering

Shawbrook has announced a wide range of rate reductions across its real estate product...

Adrian Moloney joins InterBay board

Adrian Moloney, group intermediary director at OSB Group, has been appointed to the board...

Brightstar partners with LIBF to deliver CPSP

The Brightstar Group is adopting a group-wide strategy to support team members achieve the...

Time Finance expands relationship management team

Time Finance has announced the appointment of Jonathan Johnson as relationship manager in its...

Allica Bank cuts fixed rate mortgage pricing

Allica Bank has reduced the pricing for all its fixed rate mortgages by up...

InterBay relaunches commercial and semi-commercial ranges

InterBay, part of OSB Group, has relaunched its full product range with reduced rates...

UTB recruits business development manager – deposits

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed Niki Cole to the role of business development...

Norton Broker Services unveils unsecured business finance

Norton Broker Services has launched an unsecured business finance proposition designed to help brokers...

HTB expands BTL product range and reduces rates

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has broadened its specialist buy-to-let and semi-commercial mortgage range and...

OSB Group makes key personnel changes

OSB Group has introduced a new senior sales structure, designed to support its intermediary...

Sharp rise in time and cost of planning permission for SMEs

Research commissioned by the Land, Planning and Development Federation (LPDF) and United Trust Bank...

FIBA unveils partnership with HSBC

The Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA) has announced that HSBC has joined the...

Optimum Finance appoints risk and recoveries manager

Optimum Finance has appointed Steve Chapman to manage and lead its risk and recoveries...

Brokers more optimistic about year ahead than 12 months ago

Crystal Specialist Finance has surveyed over 10,000 brokers for the second year running and...

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...

Latest news

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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