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Q&A: Brian Rubins, Alternative Bridging Corporation

BestAdvice fires the questions at Brian Rubins, executive chairman at Alternative Bridging Corporation BestAdvice (BA): You’ve...

SoMo provides free legals during March

Bridging loan firm SoMo has launched a new deal that will see it pay...

MFS products now on Criteria Brain

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) is now live on Criteria Brain. The specialist lender provides both...

Together refinances CABS securitisation

Together Financial Services has refinanced its revolving Charles Street securitisation programme (CABS) while improving...

Bridging market confidence is high for 2022

84% of broker respondents to a recent survey said that they expect to write...

BFS predicts 20% national growth in coming months

Short term lender, Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS), has doubled its lending over the past...

United Trust Bank posts record new lending figures

United Trust Bank (UTB) has reported an increase in new lending to a record...

Glenhawk joins ASTL

Glenhawk has become the latest lender to join the Association of Short Term Lenders...

Black & White Bridging promotes benefits of positive work environment

Black & White Bridging, which is approaching its first anniversary as a national lender,...

Making the most of Permitted Development

There is no doubt that since Permitted Development schemes were introduced in 2020, landlords...

Suros Capital partners with wine trading platform

Luxury asset lender, Suros Capital, has agreed partnership with fine wine trading platform, Cavex...

Lendlord unveils aggregated auction tool

Lendlord has launched an integrated auction tool that allows users to browse available lots,...

SoMo hires in-house recruiter

Bridging loan firm, SoMo, has appointed an in-house talent acquisition partner. In the last...

Record growth for bridging market

The latest data from the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has revealed a...

COMMENT

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...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

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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...

Cost of living hits homeownership plans for more than half of young Scots

More than half of younger adults in Scotland say cost-of-living pressures are the biggest...

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