Commercial

Paragon unveils new SME lending sales structure

Paragon Bank’s SME lending division has revealed a new structure for its sales function,...

Reward Finance Group expands London team

Reward Finance Group has bolstered its presence in London and the South East by...

Black & White Bridging joins ASTL

Black & White Bridging has become the latest member to join the Association of...

SMEs express real dilemma over Net Zero

Following the COP28 conference which ended last week, research from specialist business lending provider,...

Investec provides £15.6m development loan

Investec Real Estate has provided Moorfield Group, a UK-focused real estate fund manager, with...

Clever Lending completes £1m semi-commercial refinance

Clever Lending has recently helped a business customer who needed to refinance a semi-commercial...

Together refinances MBS warehouse facility

Together Financial Services has announced the refinancing of its Highfield Asset Backed Securitisation 1...

FIBA to partner with MBE North

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced that the specialist property finance trade body, FIBA, is...

Time Finance appoints relationship executive

Time Finance has welcomed George Tierney as relationship executive in its invoice finance team. Tierney...

Brokers more confident about coming year than 12 months ago

Crystal Specialist Finance has revealed how intermediaries view the market in 2024 and what...

Reward makes North East team appointment

Reward Finance Group is bolstering its expansion plans in the North East by appointing...

Clever Lending’s Matthew Dilks wins UTB award

Clever Lending has announced that Matthew Dilks one of its commercial and bridging specialists,...

Time Finance appoints non-executive director

Time Finance has welcomed Tracy Watkinson to its board as a non-executive director. Watkinson (pictured),...

Redwood Bank appoints CCO

Redwood Bank has bolstered its executive team ahead of proposed reverse takeover. John Eastgate, who...

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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