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Black & White Bridging hires financial director

Short term lender, Black & White Bridging, has appointed Naeem Tabassum to the position...

Saxon Trust appoints head of credit & risk

Stuart Munden has been appointed as head of risk & credit at Saxon Trust. Munden...

OSB Group revamps intermediary leadership

OSB Group has announced two senior intermediary leadership appointments. Adrian Moloney (pictured) has...

Impact Specialist Finance exclusives now on MortgageBrain

All of Impact Specialist Finance's exclusive and semi-exclusive products can now be sourced on...

Positive Commercial Finance provides new funder’s deals

Positive Commercial Finance has secured an exclusive bridging finance product and a semi-exclusive development...

Recognise Bank completes £2.3m bridge for eco-devopment

Recognise Bank has announced the completion of a £2.3 million bridging loan deal on...

Increase in JBSP broker mortgage searches

Knowledge Bank's latest criteria activity index has found that brokers in the residential market were...

SoMo unveils three new products

SoMo has reported its most successful year to date and has launched three new...

Industry charity football match raises £20,000

Enra Specialist Finance and MT Finance played a Christmas charity football match last week...

Two business development appointments at Sancus

Sancus has expands its business development team throughout the UK with the appointments of...

Hope Capital unveils fast track bridging offer

Hope Capital has launched a new Fast Track Bridge offering and it is available from...

MBE Manchester Expo to host 2022 FIBA Annual Conference

Specialist property finance trade body, FIBA and Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) have announced a...

UTB integrates Hometrack AVMs

United Trust Bank (UTB) has unveiled the integration of Hometrack AVM (Automated Valuation Model)...

ASTL launches new website

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has launched a new website, aimed at...

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...

Latest news

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...

Impaired credit mortgage sales rise to highest level since 2008

Mortgage lending to borrowers with impaired credit histories has climbed to levels not seen...

Councils to gain earlier powers over long-term empty homes

Councils will be able to intervene when homes have stood empty for six months...

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