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Somo reaches thousandth loan milestone

Specialist lending firm Somo Bridging has this week reached the milestone of repaying 1,000...

Suros partners with Aston Martin Owners Club

Luxury asset lender Suros Capital has been chosen as specialist lending partner to the...

Kuflink achieves B Corp certification

Kuflink, the Kent based short-term lender and P2P platform, has announced that it has...

UTB and Fluent Bridging provide £1.6m regulated bridge for downsizers

United Trust Bank (UTB) and Fluent Bridging have delivered a £1.6m regulated bridging loan...

Shawbrook agrees new five-year sponsorship deal with Saracens

Specialist bank Shawbrook and English professional rugby union club Saracens have agreed a new...

MT Finance makes board appointment

MT Finance has announced the appointment of Shyam Kotecha to the board of directors...

Alternative Bridging Corporation hires head of property

Alternative Bridging Corporation has announced the recruitment of James Ansher as head of property. ...

Black & White Bridging appoints marketing & comms manager

Specialist bridging lender Black & White Bridging has appointed Matt Horton to the role...

Aspen completes £1.75m quick bridge for foreign national

Aspen Bridging has helped an American foreign-national secure their latest high-end London investment property...

Roma Finance unveils new leadership team

Short-term lender Roma Finance has announced the creation of its new leadership team. Following further...

Hope Capital cuts rates on deals over £1m

Hope Capital has reduced rates on all cases over £1 million. The specialist short-term lender’s...

Mint Property Finance appoints head of sales

Specialist finance lender, Mint Property Finance, has welcomed Steve Smith to the business as...

Somo launches ‘One Month Interest Free’ offer

Somo Bridging is relaunching its exclusive ‘one month interest free’ deal for clients of...

UTB appoints head of regulated underwriting for bridging

United Trust Bank (UTB) has promoted Becky Kidby to the senior role of head...

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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