Commercial

New brokerage to focus on bridging and commercial business

Nick Simmons is launching a new mortgage brokerage, The Finance Company, alongside Magnus Duke...

Vast Commercial Finance secures first DIP through Brickflow

Brickflow has reported that Vast Commercial Finance is the first mortgage broker to use...

One Stop Business Finance provides £2.2m development loan

The construction of seven high-quality modular detached homes by the developer, Spacecom Limited, will...

Reward Finance funds Bury company’s growth ambitions

A Bury-based ecommerce business has been helped in its attempts to expand globally, after...

Spiralling costs stalling UK businesses’ investment plans

Hundreds of UK businesses have slashed millions from their investment plans amid turbulence in...

Bathgate celebrates own-book lending milestone

Bathgate Business Finance wrote £1m in new business in October 2022 from its own...

Time Finance appoints invoice finance BDM

Time Finance has announced the appointment of Jake Smedley as business development manager (BDM)...

UTB appoints head of block & wholesale funding

United Trust Bank (UTB) has announced the appointment of Julian Mellors as head of block...

Atom bank improves commercial mortgage criteria

Atom bank has revamped its serviceability criteria for both variable and fixed rate commercial...

Atelier ups maximum loan size

Atelier has increased the maximum size of loan it can offer to professional property...

What exactly is development finance?

On the surface, the term ‘development finance’ might seem a straightforward one. Even those...

UTB makes Midlands property development appointments

United Trust Bank (UTB) has made two new appointments to its property development originations team...

CapitalRise funds £8.5m Westworth Estate purchase

Prime property specialist finance company CapitalRise has provided funds for an £8.5m loan, to...

UTB funds Nacropolis off-market acquisition

United Trust Bank (UTB) Structured Property Finance has provided a £3.76m sales period facility...

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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