Commercial

MT Finance joins SimplyBiz Mortgages lender panel

SimplyBiz Mortgages has announced the appointment of specialist lender MT Finance to its lender...

Shawbrook adds new fixes and updates ERCs

Shawbrook has unveiled two new mortgage products for its buy-to-let, commercial and semi-commercial ranges. The...

FIBA expands lender panel

The Financial Intermediary and Broker Association (FIBA) has announced the addition of Onyx Money...

Time Finance expand asset finance team

Time Finance has announced the appointment of Morgan Lee as broker manager in its...

Simply Asset Finance posts £3.2m H1 pre-tax profit

Specialist business lending provider, Simply Asset Finance, has announced profits of £3.2 million for...

Reward appoints business development director for Wales & SW

Reward Finance Group has appointed David Owen as business development director to increase the...

Paragon provides £5.4m development finance facility

Paragon Bank’s development finance division has provided a £5.4 million finance package for the...

Assetz Capital provides £2.75m dev exit facility

Assetz Capital has reported a recent agreement for a development exit loan in Frome,...

Silbury Finance provides £67m loan for 341-home development

Silbury Finance, the Oaktree Capital Management-backed development lender, has provided a £67 million senior...

InterBay launches Select Partners for bridging

InterBay has launched Select Partners, a new partner proposition which offers exclusive access to...

Brickflow launches embedded commercial finance solution

Brickflow, the specialist property finance digital marketplace, has launched Brickflow Enterprise, an embedded finance...

Brokers become less pessimistic moving into H2

New research from Crystal Specialist Finance has revealed how mortgage brokers viewed the market...

CBF provides recruitment agency with £2.8m ABL facility

V7 Recruitment, a Manchester-based specialist recruitment agency, has secured a new, flexible £2.8m asset-based...

MBE reveals London speakers and seminar programme

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced that Rob Elder from the Bank of England...

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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