Specialist

SoMo reports record first half of 2021

Specialist lender SoMo has lent over £184m since the beginning of the year. It has redeemed...

TAB secures private equity funding

TAB has secured a funding line with an undisclosed global private equity firm and...

Tuscan Capital welcomes new BDM

Bridging lender Tuscan Capital has announced the immediate appointment of a business development manager...

A Shade Greener Finance joins ASTL

A Shade Greener (ASG) Finance has become the latest lender to join the Association...

First 4 Bridging to hold specialist lending seminars

First 4 Bridging (F4B) will be hosting three specialist lending seminars across the country. These...

Masthaven Bank appoints director of lending and credit operations

Masthaven Bank has announced that Shelley Connelly will also oversee short-term lending in the...

BFS breaks £110m barrier

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has revealed that it exceeded the £110m lending barrier in...

SoMo unveils new larger loan product

Bridging loan firm SoMo has launched a new specialist finance product giving better rates...

MFS completes large loan on country estate

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has completed a £9.45 million bridging loan on a vast...

Suros Capital inventory loan product helps jeweller’s cashflow

Suros Capital has advanced a short term loan of £210,000 to help a diamond...

Brokers expect to face challenges with valuations

82% of brokers are confident about the UK lending environment until the end of...

LendInvest agrees £150m Barclays funding partnership

LendInvest has announced a £150m partnership with Barclays and HSBC. Barclays has partnered with LendInvest...

Roma Finance improves bridging and development criteria

Roma Finance has made changes its bridging and development criteria, with an increase of...

Aspen saves developer’s deposit

Aspen recently provided a £851,875 Rapid Desktop bridge in five working days to rescue...

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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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...

Countrywide Surveying adds 35 newly qualified surveyors in 2026

Countrywide Surveying Services has added 35 newly qualified surveyors to its workforce so far...

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