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Somo unveils three new appointments

Specialist lending firm Somo Bridging is preparing for further growth in 2023 with the...

Aspen Bridging completes 30 deals totalling £30m

Aspen Bridging has completed £30m of lending across 30 deals in the last two...

Castle Trust revamps bridging offering

Castle Trust Bank has revamped its bridging range, introducing a number of new changes...

New brokerage to focus on bridging and commercial business

Nick Simmons is launching a new mortgage brokerage, The Finance Company, alongside Magnus Duke...

Tuscan Capital sees major service improvements from Fast Track process

Tuscan Capital has revealed that its Fast Track process, introduced in July 2022, has...

Q3 growth for bridging sector

Bridging completions, applications and loan books all continued to grow in Q3 2022, according...

Alternative Bridging makes marketing appointment

Alternative Bridging Corporation has added its marketing team with the recruitment of Tanvi Shah...

Tuscan Capital appoints underwriter

Tuscan Capital has announced that Jade Lidiard has joined as an underwriter. Lidiard (pictured)...

Mercantile Trust accept automated valuations for bridging

Mercantile Trust has introduced Automated Valuation Models (AVMs) into its bridging loan process. AVMs...

Roma Finance reports record month

Roma Finance has achieved its record month, not only for new business but also...

Glenhawk unveils two-year investment product

Glenhawk has launched a new two-year property investment product. It says the product has been...

LendInvest unveils new stepped bridge product

LendInvest has introduced a new stepped bridge product range with the aim to provide...

Atelier ups maximum loan size

Atelier has increased the maximum size of loan it can offer to professional property...

Aspen competes auction purchase bridge in 25 days

Aspen Bridging has revealed that it overcame major access issues to complete an auction...

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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Councils to gain earlier powers over long-term empty homes

Councils will be able to intervene when homes have stood empty for six months...

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...

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