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Glenhawk doubles maximum loan size

Glenhawk has announces a new unregulated bridging product set, increasing its maximum loan size...

Hope Capital unveils new collection and cuts fixed rates

Hope Capital has streamlined its proposition with the aim of providing a more affordable, flexible...

First 4 Bridging rebrands to Envelop

Packager First 4 Bridging (F4B) and the F4B Network have revealed a full rebranding...

Glenhawk secures £200m NatWest funding line

Glenhawk has agreed a £200 million senior funding line with NatWest Markets, which will...

Record month for TAB

Bridging lender TAB completed £34m of loans in August, up from £30m in June...

United Trust Bank appoints director of bridging

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed Sundeep Patel to the role of director of...

Greenfield Mortgages makes senior hire

Greenfield Mortgages has recruited Richard Keen to lead its corporate and national key account...

Alternative Bridging secures additional funding line

Alternative Bridging Corporation has secured a new dedicated residential development funding line from its...

Recognise Bank recruits bridging specialist

SME lender Recognise Bank has appointed Andrew Keehner as its latest relationship manager, with...

Roma Finance unveils below market value bridge and cuts rates

Roma Finance has launched a below market value bridging product and has reduced rates...

ASTL unveils new executive board appointments

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has appointed three new members to its...

West One unveils bridging tracker range

West One Loans has launched a new bridging product range with variable interest rates...

ASTL outlines Annual Conference agenda

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has announced the agenda for its Annual...

Tuscan Capital unveils bank base rate tracker option

Tuscan Capital has announced the launch of a new base rate tracker option. The new...

COMMENT

The fall in BTL company formations isn’t the whole story

It is often the case with housing and mortgage market data that the headline figure attracts most of the attention, while some of the...

Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

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...

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Octane revives specialist buy-to-let range with loans up to £15m

Octane Capital has returned to the specialist buy-to-let market with a range offering loans...

Student loan repayments squeeze first-time buyer deposit savings

More than 1.5 million young adults believe student loan repayments are making it harder...

The Exeter moves Woodley into healthcare development role

The Exeter has appointed Karen Woodley as head of healthcare development, giving her responsibility...

Landlords warn higher Budget costs could feed through to rents

Almost two-thirds of landlords say they would seek to recover higher costs through rents...

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