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West One unveils bridging tracker range

West One Loans has launched a new bridging product range with variable interest rates...

ASTL outlines Annual Conference agenda

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has announced the agenda for its Annual...

Tuscan Capital unveils bank base rate tracker option

Tuscan Capital has announced the launch of a new base rate tracker option. The new...

Mercantile Trust unveils its bridging offering into Northern Ireland

Mercantile Trust has expanded its bridging proposition into Northern Ireland. This marks the next phase...

Saxon Trust unveils cashback offer

Saxon Trust is offering borrowers an exclusive on its development exit product range. For every...

Q2 recovery for bridging market

Bridging applications, completions and loan books all recovered in the second quarter of 2022,...

SoMo launches August Bank Holiday sale

Specialist lending firm, SoMo Bridging, is offering a reduced lock-in fee from £350 to...

Black Book Finance hires real estate specialist

Hiren Depala has joined Black Book Finance as a real estate specialist. Depala (pictured) has...

14% rise in bridging finance activity

Latest Bridging Trends research has shown that the bridging loan sector continued to perform...

Aspen saves auction deposit with road trip

Aspen Bridging made to a 175-mile in-person round trip to collect legal documents to...

MFS secures £125m in increased funding

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has secured £125 million of funding from an investment bank...

Black Book Finance arranges £13.5m deal with TAB

Black Book Finance has closed a £13.5m loan facility with bridging lender TAB for...

Kuflink simplifies valuation process

Kuflink has further enhanced its criteria with the introduction of self-instructed AVMs via Hometrack...

Mint Property Finance secures block bridging facility from Aldermore

Aldermore bank has provided a block bridging facility to Mint Property Finance. Up until...

COMMENT

Busting the myths that stop homeowners protecting their income

In my role at LifeSearch, I spend a lot of time talking to mortgage advisers, brokers, and, increasingly, customers directly. One thing comes up time...

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Latest news

CHL cuts buy-to-let rates by up to 25bps

CHL Mortgages has reduced rates across its short-term let and limited edition buy-to-let ranges. The...

Darlington cuts rates across buy-to-let and specialist ranges

Darlington Building Society has reduced mortgage rates by up to 50bps across its buy-to-let,...

HTB backs £2.4m Mitcham scheme

Hampshire Trust Bank has provided a £2.4m development finance facility for a mixed-use scheme in...

The Mansfield reports record mortgage lending for second year running

Mansfield Building Society has reported record mortgage lending for the second successive year, after...

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