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Octane Capital makes sales team hires

Octane Capital has announced two new additions to its sales team. Hattie Hall joins Octane...

Roma Finance joins Mortgage Market Alliance

Roma Finance has become the latest founder member to join the Mortgage Market Alliance...

Suros Capital partners with Loans Warehouse

Luxury asset lender, Suros Capital, has joined the lender panel of specialist distributor, Loans...

Tuscan opens new regional office and creates director role

Bridging lender Tuscan Capital has made a new senior level broker-facing appointment and opened...

Hope Capital joins Optimum ELITE panel

Bridging lender Hope Capital has joined the Optimum ELITE lending panel. This partnership will provide...

Aspen funds Passivhaus development in six days

Aspen Bridging has completed a £450,000 facility to fund the final build stages of...

Shawbrook issues bridging market bulletin

Shawbrook Bank has partnered with the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) to...

Avamore Capital integrates with Nivo

Avamore Capital has continued to digitise its end-to-end lending process with the integration of...

LendInvest uses Salesforce for bridging originations

LendInvest has unveiled a cloud-based application for customers seeking short-term lending products. The new...

Aspen completes £1m four-day bridge

Aspen Bridging has completed a £1m bridge in four working days for a Hong...

Brokers increasing number of furloughed worker searches

Knowledge Bank’s monthly criteria index has revealed that in November 'furloughed workers’ returned to...

Shawbrook simplifies bridging range and cuts rates

Shawbrook Bank has revised the pricing across its bridging range, including both regulated and...

Second lockdown no barrier for bridging firm

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has reported its strongest November on record, with £45 million...

Masthaven Bank bolsters leadership team and board

Masthaven Bank has made a number of new appointments as well as promotions within its...

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Accountants, brokers and the clash of expectations

There’s an old accountant’s joke about financial advisers: the difference between us is that advisers want to look richer than their clients, while accountants...

Rachel Geddes: Redefining what’s possible for brokers and borrowers

When Rachel Geddes picked up the phone after a job interview to ask her mum what a mortgage was, she didn’t realise she was...

The Treasury is casting more floaters than a sewage farm

The problem with having a thoroughly inexperienced Chancellor and a properly ‘woodenheaded’ Prime Minister, is that they are learning the job ‘on the hoof’...

HMOs: market realities, future prospects, and the broker opportunity

The HMO sector remains one of the most dynamic parts of the private rented market, with recent data showing it’s both a significant asset...

Bridging the Pond: How large is the US bridging finance market, and compared to the UK?

When we first got started with LendInvest in the UK, post the financial crisis, bridging finance was a much more nascent product than it...

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Aspen Bridging introduces dual legal representation

Aspen Bridging has launched a new dual representation legal service designed to cut completion...

Butterfield Mortgages appoints senior relationship manager

Butterfield Mortgages has appointed Tom Blackmore as its new senior relationship manager, strengthening the...

Assetz Capital backs Worthing HMO project with planning assistance loan

Assetz Capital has completed a planning assistance loan to support the acquisition and conversion...

Pepper Money urges reform of shared ownership scheme

Specialist lender Pepper Money has presented a white paper to Downing Street calling for...