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LendInvest agrees £150m Barclays funding partnership

LendInvest has announced a £150m partnership with Barclays and HSBC. Barclays has partnered with LendInvest...

Roma Finance improves bridging and development criteria

Roma Finance has made changes its bridging and development criteria, with an increase of...

Aspen saves developer’s deposit

Aspen recently provided a £851,875 Rapid Desktop bridge in five working days to rescue...

Enra secures £500m bridging facility for West One

Enra Specialist Finance has agreed a new facility with J.P. Morgan to fund its...

Two new hires at Hope Capital

Hope Capital has appointed two new starters, Helen Hargreaves and Andrew Bate, to its...

FutureBricks added to Twenty7Tec

FutureBricks has joined Twenty7Tec, introducing its updated lending criteria to intermediaries. Brokers will be...

MFS products available through Twenty7Tec’s SOURCE

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has teamed up with Twenty7Tec to help more brokers to access...

Shawbrook Bank completes £14.5m bridging loan

Shawbrook Bank has funded a customer with a £14.5m bridging loan, allowing them to...

Tuscan Capital appoints regional manager for Midlands

Bridging lender Tuscan Capital has announced the recruitment of a new regional manager for...

Maximum LTV searches prevalent in all specialist sectors

Brokers are searching for ‘maximum loan to value (LTV)’ in large numbers, according to...

The Lending Channel partners with OMS

One Mortgage System (OMS) has signed an agreement with The Lending Channel to be...

Pink Pig Loans appoints three directors

Pink Pig Loans has  announced the appointment of a trio of new directors to...

Three new hires for Octane Capital

Octane Capita has made three new appointments. Mike Allen (pictured) joins Octane as an internal business...

Whitehall completes £2m Marylebone bridging loan

Specialist bridge financing fund, Whitehall Capital Management has completed a £2.025 million loan on...

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Busting the myths that stop homeowners protecting their income

In my role at LifeSearch, I spend a lot of time talking to mortgage advisers, brokers, and, increasingly, customers directly. One thing comes up time...

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

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Busting the myths that stop homeowners protecting their income

In my role at LifeSearch, I spend a lot of time talking to mortgage...

First-time buyers turning to side hustles to bridge deposit gap

Almost half of aspiring first-time buyers are using secondary income streams to help fund...

Vida cuts residential rates and loosens criteria for self-employed and contractor borrowers

Vida has reduced selected residential mortgage rates by up to 106 basis points and...

Iress adds AI underwriting tool to The Exchange in protection push

Iress has struck a deal with The Interesting Life Company to offer an AI-powered...

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