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ASTL reports strong bridging growth in Q3

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has reported that the bridging market continuing...

Black & White Bridging appoints new relationship manager

Black & White Bridging has appointed Mason Ward to help develop and manage new...

Specialist Finance Centre launches SFC Scotland

Specialist Finance Centre (SFC) has announced the launch of its proposition into Scotland as...

MFS completes £6.6m bridge for NW shopping centre

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has completed a £6.6 million bridging loan to help a...

Enra Specialist Finance appoints CTO

Enra Specialist Finance has appointed Aris Karidis as its new chief technology officer (CTO). Karidis...

Hope Capital improves bridging proposition in Scotland

Hope Capital has extended a selection of its bridging finance products to improve its...

Repercussions of Covid still showing in criteria searches

Knowledge Bank latest tracker has revealed that advisers are working with a "significant" number...

Whitehall Capital completes £6.5m bridge for Croydon development

Whitehall Capital Management has completed a £6,500,000 bridging loan on a development project in...

Pink Pig and Masthaven help borrower with Land Registry obstacles

Pink Pig Loans has secured a £1,080,000 bridging facility for a client who needed...

Stamp Duty boosts bridging market

Packager contributors to Bridging Trends reported a total of £190.24m in bridging loans transacted...

Hope Capital unveils Finish & Exit bridging deal

Short-term lender, Hope Capital, has introduced a new product to allow borrowers to complete...

SoMo offers 90% off valuation costs

Bridging lender, SoMo, has unveiled an early Black Friday Weekend initiative that will give borrowers...

Alternative Bridging Corporation hires new head of underwriting

Alternative Bridging Corporation has added to its underwriting team with the recruitment of Robin...

Rise in maximum bridging finance LTVs

A new report has found that the average maximum loan to value (LTV) offered...

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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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...

Phoebus completes latest SOC 2 Type II assessment

Phoebus Software has renewed its SOC 2 Type II attestation after KPMG assessed the...

Low-deposit mortgage lending climbs 38% to £24.7bn

Mortgage lending at loan-to-value ratios above 90% rose sharply over the past year as...

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