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Alternative short-term lender launches

Suros Capital has launched today to provide short-term lending facilities specifically aimed at people...

Castle Trust cuts rates by 0.25 points

Castle Trust Bank has reduced rates on all of its term products by 0.25...

Knowledge Bank: people desperate to get on the property ladder

Knowledge Bank has revealed the details of the leading criteria searches made on its...

Record month for Funding 365

Funding 365 has reported that October was its biggest month to date, with loan...

Tuscan Capital unveils HMO offering

Tuscan Capital has introduced a new range of products aimed at investors looking to...

Alternative Bridging brings back overdraft product

Alternative Bridging Corporation has reintroduced its Alternative Overdraft product, offering lower rates and service-driven...

MFS partners with Vanquish Business Services

Bridging lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has teamed up with Vanquish Business Services (Vanquish)...

Dynamo expands bridging panel

Greenfield Mortgages has joined Dynamo for Intermediaries' panel of bridging lenders. The deal means club...

Octane Capital unveils buy-to-let calculator

Octane Capital has launched a new calculator that it believes will cut the application...

Hope Capital unveils “Halloween treat for brokers”

Hope Capital has launched a special version of its Seventies Collection, with two revamped...

Shawbrook bridges urgent auction purchase

Shawbrook Bank has completed a bridging loan for a customer who needed short-term funding...

Four new appointments at Mint Bridging

Mint Bridging has made a number of new appointments to its team. Karen Shepherd has...

New hire at bridging firm

Phoebe Sellars has been appointed as business development and loan manager at Bridge Help. She...

Glenhawk moves into regulated bridging

Glenhawk has launched its first regulated bridging product. Launched in direct response to increasing borrower...

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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...

Passing the affordability exam

As teachers and students of various ages have spent August nervously opening exam results following years of study that will determine their ability to...

Investors are changing their approach – and lenders should too

The buy-to-let market never stands still, but the pace of change in recent years has been remarkable. The days of the so-called ‘accidental landlord’,...

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Climate change concern reshaping UK property market, survey finds

Climate change has become a decisive factor in UK property transactions, with new research...

iPipeline expands ‘advanced underwriting’ to whole adviser market

iPipeline has extended its advanced underwriting feature to all advisers using its SolutionBuilder platform,...

Housing market ‘faces two months of uncertainty’

The housing market is braced for a prolonged period of uncertainty after Coventry Building...

Landlords in low-yield regions face refinancing strain

Buy-to-let landlords in some of Britain’s most expensive areas are facing a fresh refinancing...