Commercial

InterBay appoints specialist finance account manager

OSB Group has promoted Charlotte Parker to specialist finance account manager (SFAM) for the...

Andrea Glasgow becomes specialist mortgage sales director at HTB

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Andrea Glasgow as sales director,...

Kuflink secures £35m institutional debt funding facility

Kuflink Group and European Risk Capital have jointly announced that Kuflink has entered into...

Lack of supply chain awareness is putting SMEs at risk

3.3 million (60%) small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have experienced supply chain delays in...

Paragon funds Horsnall Holdings’ Wharf development

Horsnall Holdings has completed the construction of The Wharf, a 55-unit scheme in Waterside...

Bibby Financial Services appoints BDM for Scotland

Invoice finance provider, Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has appointed Gayle Robertson as business development...

Sirius completes £12.4m dev exit deal

Sirius Property Finance has completed a complex £12.4m limited company buy-to-let mortgage to finance...

CapitalRise reports 80% YOY origination boost

CapitalRise has announced that four loans that were completed in May, totalling £18m. This...

Reward Finance Group launches wellness team

SME funding provider, Reward Finance Group, has launched a dedicated Wellness Team to provide...

HTB to hold development finance broker masterclass

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) is to hold a development finance event for brokers on...

Colenko extends ‘triple lock’ rate guarantee

Bridging and development finance lender, Colenko, has extended its Triple Lock guarantee across all...

Atelier partners with HubSpot over customer experience

Development lender Atelier has teamed up with the global software provider HubSpot to create...

Paragon funds £7.4m Bristol dev finance deal

Paragon Bank’s development finance division has provided a £7.4m finance package to support the...

First CPSP candidates complete training programme

The Certified Practitioner in Specialist Property Finance (CPSP) programme, launched as a joint initiative...

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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