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SoMo launches August Bank Holiday sale

Specialist lending firm, SoMo Bridging, is offering a reduced lock-in fee from £350 to...

Black Book Finance hires real estate specialist

Hiren Depala has joined Black Book Finance as a real estate specialist. Depala (pictured) has...

14% rise in bridging finance activity

Latest Bridging Trends research has shown that the bridging loan sector continued to perform...

Aspen saves auction deposit with road trip

Aspen Bridging made to a 175-mile in-person round trip to collect legal documents to...

MFS secures £125m in increased funding

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has secured £125 million of funding from an investment bank...

Black Book Finance arranges £13.5m deal with TAB

Black Book Finance has closed a £13.5m loan facility with bridging lender TAB for...

Kuflink simplifies valuation process

Kuflink has further enhanced its criteria with the introduction of self-instructed AVMs via Hometrack...

Mint Property Finance secures block bridging facility from Aldermore

Aldermore bank has provided a block bridging facility to Mint Property Finance. Up until...

Putting your clients in the strongest position to move

The overall volume of property transactions may be lower than the heightened activity of...

Hodge unveils new commercial finance options

Hodge has launched two new commercial finance options, an Acquisition Bridge and a Sales...

Lendco unveils new website

Specialist lender, Lendco, has revamped its website. The new website had been designed to be...

Roma Finance unveils appointments and promotions

Roma Finance has announced eight new appointments and three promotions. Alan Collins and Saffron...

Norton Broker Services adds TAB to panel

Norton Broker Services has added bridging lender TAB to its panel of lenders. The...

OSB Group improves High Net Worth offering

OSB Group has announced changes to support brokers with large-scale bridging finance deals. The...

COMMENT

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...

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...

Latest news

Eleos launches income protection with redundancy cover

Eleos Life has launched an income protection policy covering redundancy alongside illness and injury...

Trade bodies welcome first-time buyer scheme but call for careful design

Mortgage trade bodies have welcomed the government's proposed Your First Home scheme, while warning...

Advice firm wins first client through ChatGPT after AI visibility push

A financial advice firm secured its first client through ChatGPT within two weeks of...

Alps expands landlord insurance add-ons on Acturis

Alps has made its full range of let property insurance add-ons available through the...

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