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OSB’s Precise Mortgages and InterBay launch new bridging products

OSB Group has launched a new bridging proposition through Precise Mortgages and InterBay. The group...

Hope Capital funds £1.1m Lancaster pub conversion

Hope Capital has completed a £1.1 million commercial loan on a former pub complex...

Record Q1 for bridging lender

Aspen Bridging has reported its its strongest Q1 performance to date, completing a record...

Robert Owen joins Black & White Bridging as NED

Black & White Bridging has appointed Robert Owen to its board as non-executive director. Owen...

Shawbrook extends MyShawbrook portal to bridging

Shawbrook has extended its digital offering to now cover unregulated bridging with MyShawbrook Bridging. The...

West One completes £7.8m complex commercial bridge

West One Loans has completed a £7.8m large, complex, commercial bridging loan to finance...

MFS lowers buy-to-let and bridging rates

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has cuts rates across both its buy-to-let mortgage range and...

Alternative Bridging provides £1.5m loan for BTL investment

Alternative Bridging Corporation has provided a large bridging loan so a client could move...

How bridging can boost recovering businesses

Despite being only a few months into 2022, the year is already promising to...

Hope Capital revamps range and cuts rates

Short-timer lender Hope Capital has revised its product proposition, with non-discounted rates now starting...

UTB improves non-regulated bridging criteria

United Trust Bank (UTB) has announced a series of Fast Track and AVM criteria...

Funding 365 delivers £4.75m of stepped rate bridging

Funding 365 has completed two 75% LTV stepped rate bridging loans with a combined...

Spring Finance begins bridging finance pilot

Second charge lending specialist, Spring Finance, has launched a bridging pilot scheme. With an offering...

Mortgage Advice Bureau to acquire Fluent Money Group

Mortgage Advice Bureau is to acquire approximately 75% of Project Finland Topco (Fluent Money...

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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