Specialist

Second charge bridging: fast and flexible funding

The ‘race for space’ that we saw during the Covid-19 pandemic has subsided and...

Castle Trust Bank launches bridging offering

Castle Trust Bank has introduced a bridging proposition, backed up by dedicated sales, underwriting...

Glenhawk unveils senior appointments

Glenhawk has appointed Michael Clifford as commercial director, Simon Lee as head of mortgage...

TAB loan book reaches £115m

Short-term lender TAB has reported that its loan book has grown to £115m. The...

Tuscan Capital unveils Fast Track approach to bridging

Tuscan Capital has relaunched its Residential Bridging proposition with the addition of its new...

Mercantile Trust joins the ASTL

Mercantile Trust has become the latest lender to join the Association of Short-Term Lenders...

SoMo appoints sales director

Bridging lender SoMo has promoted Jade Keval to the position of sales director. The company...

Kuflink’s P2P platform surpasses £200m

Kuflink has announced that its P2P platform has just passed the £200 million mark...

Bridge Help makes business development hire

Tracey Vaughan is the latest appointment to Bridge Help’s business development team. The Chesterfield-based...

Aspen completes £1.5m bridge-to-let in Mayfair

Aspen Bridging has completed a complex £1.5m gross bridge-to-let application on a luxury two-bedroom...

MFS secures £250m funding

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has secured £250 million of new funding from an institutional...

Spring Finance launches specialist bridging to whole of market

After a three-month pilot, Spring Finance is launching its specialist bridging proposition to the...

Together lends £300m in one month

Specialist lender Together has broken its all-time lending record for the second month in...

West One Loans appoints two new bridging BDMs

West One Loans has appointed two new business development managers as part of a...

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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