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MT Finance appoints London senior BDM

MT Finance has appointed Rory Cleary as senior business development manager for London. Cleary joins...

Impact Specialist Finance unveils Covid-19 update for specialist lending

Specialist mortgage broker and distributor, Impact Specialist Finance, has introduced a ‘Specialist Lending Covid-19...

Fiduciam lent £9m in Easter week

Fiduciam believes it is bucking the trend in the bridging market, having lent over...

Mint Bridging unveils Covid-19 deal

Short-term property finance provider Mint Bridging has introduced a new product for April designed...

Catalyst Property Finance ups bridging LTVs

Catalyst Property Finance has reintroduced a higher LTV bridging product up to 70% LTV. The lender had...

Knowledge Bank: Covid-19 searches most popular in March

Knowledge Bank’ has revealed that ‘Covid-19 Mortgage Payment Holidays’ was the most searched for...

Chris Parr joins MT Finance

MT Finance has appointed Chris Parr as its new business development manager (BDM) for...

Knowledge Bank expands Covid-19 feed

Knowledge Bank has added second charges and bridging to its Covid-19 live feed as...

F4B and Grosvenor Funding partner for four-day bridging loan

Specialist distributor First 4 Bridging (F4B) and Grosvenor Funding have teamed up to secure...

Aspen utilises desktop valuations to continue to lend

Aspen Bridging insists it will continue to lend through the coronavirus pandemic and is...

Oblix Capital tech partnership minimises remote working impact

Oblix Capital has teamed up with technology firm Nivo Solutions to enable the use...

Robert Sinclair: “I fear for non-bank lenders”

The chief executive of the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries has warned that the coronavirus...

Roma Finance stops new business lending

Bridging, buy-to-let and development finance lender, Roma Finance, has temporarily stopped accepting new business...

Octane Capital completes four deals in past 24 hours

Octane Capital says it will continue to support its broker partners as normally as possible...

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Bridging the Pond: How large is the US bridging finance market, and compared to the UK?

When we first got started with LendInvest in the UK, post the financial crisis, bridging finance was a much more nascent product than it...

Passing the affordability exam

As teachers and students of various ages have spent August nervously opening exam results following years of study that will determine their ability to...

Investors are changing their approach – and lenders should too

The buy-to-let market never stands still, but the pace of change in recent years has been remarkable. The days of the so-called ‘accidental landlord’,...

Leasehold fees, specialists and the need to shop around

Leasehold properties account for around 20% of all dwellings in the UK, and while that figure may change in the future with government legislation...

Tuning into later life lending conversations

There are certain conversations in our profession that can genuinely change the course of a client’s life. Later life lending sits firmly in that...

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FCA warns of surge in impersonation scams as fraudsters target older victims

Almost 5,000 reports of fraudsters impersonating the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) were made in...

AS Financial rebrands to showcase growth beyond mortgages

AS Financial, the London-based financial advisory firm, has unveiled a bold new brand identity...

Reward Funding passes lending milestone

Reward Funding has passed the £350m loan book milestone for the first time in...

London’s luxury lettings market surges 154% as wealthy tenants opt to rent

London’s prime lettings market has more than doubled in size during the first half...