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Kuflink helps landlord with five-day bridging completion

Kuflink has helped a landlord client to refinance a property from its existing short-term...

Bridging Trends see quarterly rise in gross lending

The latest Bridging Trends data has shown that gross bridging lending from the contributors hit...

TAB launches tracker bridging loan

TAB has introduced a tracker bridging loan to sit alongside its traditional, fixed-rate, short-term loans. The...

Lack of bridging knowledge not denting willingness to provide advice

83% of brokers offer bridging finance to their clients, even though only 67% claim...

Alternative Bridging makes junior marketing hire

Alternative Bridging Corporation has expanded its marketing team with the appointment of a new...

Together reveals record bridging lending

Together has provided more than £103m in short-term commercial finance in a single month. The...

Aspen appoints graduates into underwriter roles

Aspen Bridging has appointed Richard Tweddle and Sinead McMurray as underwriters via its graduate...

Bridging “a lottery for brokers and clients”

Black & White Bridging has said that brokers should be able to demand certainty...

Glenhawk unveils new regulated bridging range

Glenhawk has launched a new regulated bridging range, for borrowers looking to secure finance...

Suros Capital partners with IHT specialist

Luxury asset lender, Suros Capital, has added specialist inheritance tax and probate advisers, Provira,...

New facility boosts Tuscan’s portfolio landlord offering

Tuscan Capital has secured new funding for buy-to-let portfolio landlords looking to secure short-term...

TAB reports record month in April

Bridging lender TAB has announced it completed a record month in April. The Hertfordshire-based...

Assetz Capital reappoints relationship director

Specialist lender Assetz Capital has reappointed relationship director Jonathan Kirk. Based in Yorkshire, Kirk...

Family Finance joins ASTL

Family Finance has become the latest lender to join the Association of Short-Term Lenders...

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...

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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...

Lifetime ISAs linked to £67.5bn of first-time buyer property purchases

Lifetime ISAs have helped more than 417,000 people buy their first home since the...

Landbay webinar to examine outlook for rates and UK economy

Landbay is to host an economic webinar examining the outlook for interest rates, inflation...

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