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Aspen Bridging appoints BDM for the South

Aspen Bridging has appointed Steve Gregory as its first southern region business development manager...

Shawbrook creates bridging & seconds team amid restructure

Shawbrook is implementing a new structure designed to deliver an improved service proposition. Emma Cox...

TMA Club adds The Loan Partnership to panel

TMA Club has added master broker, The Loan Partnership, to its panel. Through the...

Suros Capital partners with Funding Bay

'Luxury asset' lender Suros Capital has announced its latest partnership with SME finance specialist,...

UTB appoints bridging BDM

United Trust Bank (UTB) has added to its bridging sales team with the appointment...

Bridge Help hires new BDM

Bridging loan provider, Bridge Help, has added to its business development team with the...

Octopus Real Estate added to Twenty7Tec’s SOURCE

Twenty7Tec has announced that Octopus Real Estate has added its mortgage product range to...

Rising cost of living behind second charge interest

Borrowers are turning to second charge mortgages to help alleviate financial issues, according to...

First 4 Bridging hires head of intermediary relations

First 4 Bridging (F4B) has appointed Besmir Kurti as head of intermediary relations for...

Aspen Bridging introduces bridge-to-let offering

Aspen Bridging has entered the bridge-to-let market. Available up to 80% LTV, with bridge rates starting...

Recognise Bank partners with Galliard Homes and Reflex Bridging

Recognise Bank has agreed a multi-million pound 'loan on loan' partnership with Reflex Bridging,...

Two new recruits at Alternative Bridging Corporation

Alternative Bridging Corporation has appointed a new underwriter and a case manager. Robert Seymour has...

Hope Capital reports record year

Hope Capital has reported that its 2021/22 financial year was strongest year in its...

Saxon Trust appoints head of sales & marketing

Saxon Trust has announced the appointment of Brian West as its new head of sales...

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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