Commercial

BFS makes appointments to drive asset finance growth strategy

Bibby Financial Services’s (BFS) asset finance division, Bibby Leasing, has announced a series of...

JMT Finance funds 80% LTV first-time landlord purchase and refurb

JMT Finance, the privately owned and funded commercial property lender, has announced the completion...

Hope Capital introduces two new products

Hope Capital has launched two new products: Bridge 2 Let and Term 2 Rent. The...

Allica Bank secures £100m funding

Allica Bank has announced a £100 million Series C funding round led by global...

Aldermore provides £700k loan to recycling company

Aldermore has provided a £700k loan to Environcom, a waste recycling company, for a...

Suros Capital appoints BD director

Luxury asset lender, Suros Capital, has appointed Edward Blackmore as business development director to...

Hampshire Trust Bank reduces 5-year BTL fixed rates

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has made major changes to its specialist buy-to-let mortgage offering,...

Effective monitoring key to becoming more sustainable

New data from Time Finance reveals that one in three businesses see effective monitoring...

InterBay expands legal panel

InterBay, part of lending OSB Group, has expanded its legal panel to help speed...

IGF appoints new sales directors

Independent Growth Finance (IGF) has expanded its presence in the North of England, with...

Brightstar Group reports record financial results

The Brightstar Group has announced record financial results for 2022, during which it delivered...

HTB completes £12.9m development finance facility

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has provided an experienced housebuilder with a £12.9 million facility...

Envelop Network to host Mortgage & Specialist Finance Expo

The Envelop Network is to host the Mortgage & Specialist Finance Expo on Wednesday...

Mercantile Trust joins Propp lending panel

Mercantile Trust has been added to the lending panel of Propp, the property finance...

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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