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UTB offers dual legal representation for bridging

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced dual legal representation for bridging loans after a...

Brexit hitting plans to target housing shortage

63% of property finance brokers believe that plans to tackle the housing shortage have...

Apex Bridging offers exclusive for Bridging & Commercial Club

Apex Bridging is providing the Bridging & Commercial Club with its second exclusive bridging...

Trio joins Catalyst Property Finance

Catalyst Property Finance has announced three new appointments within its head office team. There is...

Benson Hersch announces departure from ASTL

Benson Hersch will step down as CEO of the Association of Short-Term Lenders (ASTL)...

Former Pepper MD to advise bridging lender

Roma Finance has appointed Colin Snowdon as board adviser. Snowdon (pictured) was previously managing director...

Octopus ups maximum unregulated bridging LTV

Octopus Real Estate is making changes to its unregulated residential bridging product. It is increasing...

Kuflink appoints CFO

Kuflink Group plc has hired former Barclaycard financial director, Tim Spurr, as chief financial...

Arbuthnot Specialist Finance completes first deal

Arbuthnot Specialist Finance (ASFL) has completed its first loan since announcing its launch in...

Mint Bridging makes changes to speed up application process

Mint Bridging has launched a new product proposition. For sub-60% loan to value (LTV) bridging...

Hope Capital introduces its lowest ever rates

Bridging lender Hope Capital has launched its lowest ever interest rate for June. Rates on...

Masthaven revamps bridging offering

Masthaven has made major changes to its short-term lending offering to include reduced rates for...

Permitted development extension an opportunity for brokers

Oblix Capital has claimed that the government's announcement to extend permitted development rules, which...

Enra Group makes senior appointments

West One Loans and its parent, Enra Group, have made a number of strategic...

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Bridging the Pond: How large is the US bridging finance market, and compared to the UK?

When we first got started with LendInvest in the UK, post the financial crisis, bridging finance was a much more nascent product than it...

Passing the affordability exam

As teachers and students of various ages have spent August nervously opening exam results following years of study that will determine their ability to...

Investors are changing their approach – and lenders should too

The buy-to-let market never stands still, but the pace of change in recent years has been remarkable. The days of the so-called ‘accidental landlord’,...

Leasehold fees, specialists and the need to shop around

Leasehold properties account for around 20% of all dwellings in the UK, and while that figure may change in the future with government legislation...

Tuning into later life lending conversations

There are certain conversations in our profession that can genuinely change the course of a client’s life. Later life lending sits firmly in that...

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Rightmove warns property tax reforms could stall housing market

Rightmove has warned the government that proposed changes to property taxation risk distorting the...

Bradford retains crown as UK’s leading property hotspot

Bradford has once again been named the country’s most in-demand housing market, topping OnTheMarket’s...

Keystone reduces expat buy-to-let rates and adds new product

Keystone Property Finance has reduced rates across its expat buy-to-let range, cutting selected fixed...

Gatehouse cuts buy-to-let rental rates and eases paperwork

Gatehouse Bank has cut rental rates by 0.25% across its buy-to-let purchase plans for...