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Kuflink makes head of products appointment

Kuflink, the national bridging and development finance lender, has appointed Paul Auger as head...

Aspen speeds up application-to-completion time

Aspen Bridging completed over 40% of deals in under 14 days in the six...

FIBA and ASTL confirm education framework

The Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA) and Association of Short Term Mortgage Lenders...

Tuscan Capital adds free AVMs to Fast Track bridging

Tuscan Capital has announced the addition of a free AVM option to its new...

Chancery Capital partners with Hope Capital

Chancery Capital has joined forces with specialist short-term lender, Hope Capital. The strategic partnership will...

Sancus appoints group property director

Bridging and development lender, Sancus, has appointed Alasdair Carlyle as group property director. The appointment...

Suros Capital appoints managing director

Luxury asset lender, Suros Capital, has appointed Helena Khizam as managing director. Khizam (pictured) has...

Octopus Real Estate joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added Octopus Real Estate to its lending panel. Member firms of...

Loan.co.uk helps adverse credit landlord with £1.1m bridge

Broker Loan.co.uk has helped a landlord extend her property portfolio despite adverse credit, with...

Spring Finance secures NatWest funding line

Specialist lender Spring Finance has completed its first institutional bridging funding line with NatWest. Spring...

Richard Deacon joins Tuscan Capital

Tuscan Capital has announced that Richard Deacon has joined as sales director, responsible for...

Kuflink appoints head of origination

Bridging lender, Kuflink, has announced the appointment of Ranjit Narwal as head of origination. He...

Roma Finance extends RomaFLOW processing reach

Roma Finance has made changes to its RomaFLOW process, which has helped double the...

SoMo guarantees rates for next quarter

Specialist lending firm, SoMo Bridging, has committed to guarantee its existing rates for all...

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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