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Video shorts ahead of key Bank of England rate decision

Ahead of today's Bank of England rate decision, Newspage asked financial services experts to...

Accord expands £5k Deposit Mortgage to flats

Accord Mortgages has extended its £5,000 Deposit Mortgage to include flats, in response to...

Reward Funding creates head of partnerships role

Reward Funding has appointed Adrian Stalley as its first head of partnerships. Stalley (pictured, centre)...

VAS welcomes six new starters

VAS has announced a number of new appointments. Among the six new starters, Joe Bates...

Arc & Co. closes £26m bridging loan

Specialist debt and equity advisory firm Arc & Co. has completed a £25.67m bridging...

Former LendInvest founder to expand his US bridging interests

Faes & Co., an investment firm led by former LendInvest founder Christian Faes, is...

UTB completes £4m commercial bridge refinance for Merchant Land

United Trust Bank (UTB) Structured Property Finance has completed a £4 million commercial bridge...

Vida Homeloans cuts rates across residential and buy-to-let

Vida Homeloans has announced reductions across its residential and buy-to-let mortgage ranges, including its...

SPF Private Clients launches Business Finance division

SPF Private Clients (SPF) is launching a Business Finance division to assist small and...

Mortgage product choice expands raising hopes of rate cuts amid lender competition

Homebuyers are benefiting from a surge in mortgage product availability, with increased competition among...

Mortgage market surge in January fails to match last year’s boom

The UK mortgage market roared back to life in January, with mortgage searches soaring...

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries cuts rates across short term lets range

Specialist lender CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has reduced rates by up to 1.19% across...

Black & White Bridging expands relationship team with four strategic hires

Black & White Bridging has bolstered its relationship team with four key appointments. The latest...

OneDome expands team and targets 200 brokers by year-end

OneDome, the homebuying services platform, has strengthened its mortgage brokerage team. It has added 10...

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Heavy refurbishment: structuring finance for complex property upgrades

Investors are rethinking their approach to property - heavy refurbishment is no longer just an option; it’s a necessity for unlocking value in today’s...

Why predicting 2025 interest rates feels like a fool’s errand

In my first (and for some reason clearly not my last) article last month, I attempted (perhaps foolishly) to discuss where rates might go...

Helping university students onto the property ladder

As we head towards the Easter break, thousands of first-year university students up and down the country will be preparing for exams and making...

Lenders must step up on high LTV products

Things are on the up for borrowers with a smaller deposit. The financial information website Moneyfacts publishes a regular update on mortgage product numbers,...

Why it matters that bridging hit more than £10bn last year

We see many numbers bandied around in the financial industry, which can sometimes have a numbing effect. So why should we all, especially brokers, care...

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Three-quarters of brokers expect rate hold

76% of specialist brokers expect that the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)...

The Finance Family adopts Acre as platform for growth

Midlands-based The Finance Family has migrated its team of over 20 brokers to Acre’s...

‘Consumer thinking’ holding businesses back from better finance solutions

New research from Time Finance has revealed that many UK businesses default to consumer-style...

British Business Bank reports how pivotal first Covid lockdown was

Five years since the first Covid-19 lockdown, new data from Start Up Loans, part...