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Funding 365 launches auction valuation fee rebate pledge

Funding 365 has pledged to rebate property valuation fees to increase cash flow for...

Recognise Bank’s parent company delists

Recognise Bank has announced that its parent company, the City of London Group plc,...

ASTL and FIBA invite support for education programme

The ASTL and FIBA have written to members and partners respectively, inviting them to...

Finova launches partnership with Loans Warehouse

Finova Payment and Mortgage Services has partnered with Loans Warehouse, the second charge mortgage...

United Trust Bank completes £3.3m regulated bridging loan

United Trust Bank's (UTB) bridging division completed a £3.3m regulated bridging loan to enable...

Alternative Bridging appoints head of sales for the North

Alternative Bridging Corporation has promoted Paul Gavin to the role of head of sales,...

TAB launches Open Banking interface

Bridging lender, TAB, has integrated Open Banking into its processes. Open Banking allows consumers to securely share...

MT Finance joins IMLA

MT Finance has become the latest full member to join the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders...

Glenhawk appoints BDM for South West & Wales region

Glenhawk has appointed Stephen Wrigley as business development manager, with responsibility for the South...

MFS property book surpasses £1.5bn in value

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has revealed that it has now secured charges against more...

Aspen completes £2.1m bridge-to-let deal

Aspen Bridging has completed a £2.1m bridge-to-let loan within three weeks, despite a last-minute...

Enra Specialist Finance reports record results

Enra Specialist Finance has announced record performance in the year to 31 December 2022....

Black & White Bridging expands into Scotland

Bridging lender, Black & White, has expanded its reach into Scotland. This expansion has...

Tuscan Capital recruits regional sales manager for the south

Tuscan Capital has announced that Mason Ward has joined the lender as a regional...

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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