Commercial

HTB appoints development finance lending director

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has appointed Barney Iles as lending director within its development...

Sancus completes £10.95m development loan

Sancus Lending Group has completed a £10.95m loan to support Bowsfield, an All Saints...

MCR Property Group & London Wall announce new charity partnership

London Wall Lending has announced its charitable partnership with MCR Property Group which includes...

Paragon Development Finance appoints relationship manager

Paragon Bank’s development finance division has made a series of promotions, including that of...

VAS Assurance reaches £200m milestone

VAS Assurance’s Valuation Desktop+ has hit two key milestones in completing over £200m worth...

United Trust Bank makes director-level intermediary appointment

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed Piragash Sivanesan as director - intermediaries, property finance...

Cynergy Business Finance provides £150m of funding in first year

Cynergy Business Finance (CBF), the asset-based lending (ABL) arm of Cynergy Bank, has surpassed...

Two in every five SMEs fear insolvencies or mass redundancies

41% of established small and medium businesses (those with between 10 and 100 employees)...

Reward Finance funds Caernarfon events theatre growth

A £435,000 cash injection provided by Reward Finance Group will help an entertainment and...

Silbury Finance provides £22m facility for Hove residential development

Silbury Finance, the Oaktree Capital Management-backed development lender, has provided a £22 million senior...

Saxon Trust completes £850k ground up development loan

Saxon Trust has completed an £850,000 senior development facility, fully funding the construction and...

UTB appoints head of credit for asset finance 

United Trust Bank (UTB) has Jon Phillips to the new role of head of...

UTB funds £13m Lincolnshire development

United Trust Bank (UTB) is supporting the construction of a new £13.6m housing development...

Aldermore makes asset finance appointments

Aldermore has appointed Simon Lefevre as its head of wholesale and Chris Smith as...

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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