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Bridge Help makes business development hire

Tracey Vaughan is the latest appointment to Bridge Help’s business development team. The Chesterfield-based...

Aspen completes £1.5m bridge-to-let in Mayfair

Aspen Bridging has completed a complex £1.5m gross bridge-to-let application on a luxury two-bedroom...

MFS secures £250m funding

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has secured £250 million of new funding from an institutional...

Spring Finance launches specialist bridging to whole of market

After a three-month pilot, Spring Finance is launching its specialist bridging proposition to the...

Together lends £300m in one month

Specialist lender Together has broken its all-time lending record for the second month in...

West One Loans appoints two new bridging BDMs

West One Loans has appointed two new business development managers as part of a...

£4m shopping centre deal saved from collapse

SPF Short Term Finance has rescued an investor purchasing a £4 million shopping centre...

Alternative Bridging takes approach to Scotland

Alternative Bridging Corporation has bolstered its lending proposition for Scotland. The short-term lender is...

J.P. Morgan provides MT Finance with BTL funding line

MT Finance has agreed a forward flow agreement with J.P. Morgan to support the...

Finova Payment and Mortgage Services adds Hope Capital to panel

Finova Payment and Mortgage Services has unveiled a partnership with specialist bridging loan provider,...

New marketing and products manager at Hope Capital 

Hope Capital has appointed Sarah Butler as the firm’s new marketing and products manager. Butler...

Impact Specialist Finance added to Paradigm panel

Impact Specialist Finance has been added to the packager panel of Paradigm Mortgage Services,...

SoMo launches ‘One Month Interest Free’ option

In what it claims is an industry first, bridging lender SoMo has launched a...

Spring Finance hires new bridging underwriter

Spring Finance has appointed Jordan Lapid as an underwriter to work within the specialist...

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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