Commercial

Sancus appoints business development manager

Sancus has appointed Clare Cuff as business development manager (BDM). She joins the London-based company...

Aspen completes £5.2m heavy works bridge-to-let deal

Aspen Bridging has completed a £5.2m Heavy Works bridge-to-let at 75%, inclusive of 100%...

Time Finance appoints head of compliance

Time Finance has appointed Sean Hughes as head of compliance. Hughes (pictured) brings over 10 years’...

SMEs to invest £633m in growth over next 12 months

SMEs plan to spend an average of £111,175 on growth strategies, equating to a...

Hodge unveils new ‘Stretch Senior’ option for experienced property developers

Hodge has launched a new development finance option, Stretch Senior, to provide experienced property...

Rolex collection funds SME capital requirement

Suros Capital has helped an SME owner who was seeking a short-term funding injection....

Skipton posts record profits for invoice finance business

Skipton Business Finance (SBF) has announced pre-tax profits of £5.4m in 2021, up 53%...

Paragon provides £10m for sustainable Somerset development

Paragon Development Finance has provided Acorn Property Group with a £10 million finance facility...

Rebrand for VAS Group

VAS Group has been rebranded to VAS Valuation Group, while its VAS Audit division...

Time Finance appoints head of marketing

Time Finance has announced that Kate Brown has taken up a new role within...

Hodge revamps commercial product offering

Hodge has made changes to its commercial property proposition, with a new commercial investment...

£16m industrial estate sold for mixed use redevelopment 

Eastwood has sold its 7.5 acre Hertford Industrial Estate site in Caxton Hill, Hertford,...

Inflation biggest worry for SMEs over coming year

WorkLife’s latest Small Business Monitor has found that high inflation is the greatest challenge...

Barclays expands Groundsure environmental screening arrangement

Barclays has expanded its agreement with environmental analytics business Groundsure to start screening commercial...

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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Phoebus completes latest SOC 2 Type II assessment

Phoebus Software has renewed its SOC 2 Type II attestation after KPMG assessed the...

Low-deposit mortgage lending climbs 38% to £24.7bn

Mortgage lending at loan-to-value ratios above 90% rose sharply over the past year as...

Stonebridge reports sharp rise in protection policies placed in trust

The proportion of protection policies being placed in trust has risen substantially over the...

Countrywide Surveying adds 35 newly qualified surveyors in 2026

Countrywide Surveying Services has added 35 newly qualified surveyors to its workforce so far...

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