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Assetz Capital provides £1m bridging loans to SME investor

Assetz Capital has financed three bridging loans totalling £1m, helping an SME property investor...

Annual average bridging LTV at record high

The latest Bridging Trends report has found that £626.7 million of bridging loans were transacted by Bridging Trends...

Aspen unveils new development exit & refurb product

Aspen has made changes to its offering, unveiling a new development exit & refurbishment...

Movin Legal partners with Roma Finance

Conveyancing portal Movin Legal has partnered with Roma Finance to help Roma’s intermediary partners...

TAB secures new credit facility

Property lender TAB has secured a new funding line from New York investment firm, Atalaya...

Mercantile Trust revamps bridging offering

Mercantile Trust has updated its bridging proposition, cutting rates, as well as expanding its...

Roma Finance cuts bridging and development rates

Roma Finance has reduced rates and improved criteria across the product range. Rates for standard...

Black & White Bridging launches apprenticeship academy

Black & White Bridging, which launched nationally to the intermediary market in April last...

Helping commercial property be (re)fit for purpose

The high street is changing. Gone are the days where the adage ‘build it...

Sancus joins Knowledge Bank platform

Sancus has joined the Knowledge Bank platform as a short-term property finance provider. Knowledge Bank...

SoMo’s valuation-only deal behind customer growth

Bridging loan firm, SoMo, has reported a 30% increase in its client base. It says...

New website for Black & White Bridging

Short term lender, Black & White Bridging (B&W), has launched a new website to...

BFS appoints two new recruits

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has appointed a new HR manager and credit control assistant. Gill...

Roma Finance appoints three new directors

Roma Finance has announced the appointment of three new directors. Steve Smith has been appointed...

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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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...

Precise cuts residential mortgage offer times with new platform

Precise has launched a residential mortgage platform after a pilot reduced average application-to-offer times...

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