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Three new hires for Hope Capital

Hope Capital has made three new appointments. The lender's sales team has been joined by...

Two firms sign up to Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter

Vibe Finance and Black & White Bridging have become the first signatories of Mortgage...

CSF wants market to Thrive with new ebook

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has published an ebook designed to explore the post-pandemic landscape after...

Masthaven Bank signs Women in Finance Charter

Masthaven Bank has become a signatory of the Women in Finance Charter. The Charter...

SFC creates senior management roles following restructure

Specialist Finance Centre (SFC) has announced a staffing restructure and the internal promotion of...

Aspen completes ‘no valuation’ £2.7m bridge

Aspen has completed a £2.734m bridge on its no valuation product for an applicant...

Shawbrook partners with Vantage for auction/refurb customer

Shawbrook Bank has supported a customer with a £189,000 bridging loan, enabling them to...

Three new hires at Glenhawk

Glenhawk has announced the appointments of Jeremy Russ as head of compliance, Roxana Tsirikhova...

Suros completes 8-hour bridge against watch and jewellery collection

Suros Capital has completed a short-term bridging loan of £350,000 secured against a customer’s...

Hope Capital hires new senior development underwriter

Hope Capital has added to its underwriting team with the appointment of Jon Reed...

BFS joins Private Finance lending panel

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has been appointed to the lending panel of national brokerage,...

TAB completes five loans totalling £11.4m on the same day

TAB, partnering with introducer REFC, has completed five bridging loans totalling £11.4m on the...

Precise Mortgages launches 75% LTV bridging range

Precise Mortgages has launched a bridging range, featuring regulated and non-regulated products up to...

Castle Trust Bank completes £4.5m bridge in two weeks

Castle Trust Bank has completed a "complex" £4.5m bridging loan within 14 working days...

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

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...

Stonebridge reports sharp rise in protection policies placed in trust

The proportion of protection policies being placed in trust has risen substantially over the...

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