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Catalyst Property Finance appoints head of real estate

Catalyst Property Finance has appointed Kevin Stephenson as its head of real estate within...

Q&A: Marcus Dussard, sales director at Castle Trust

BestAdvice (BA): Tell us about Castle Trust’s new bridging product? Marcus Dussard (MD): Our new...

Castle Trust introduces new bridging loan

Castle Trust has unveiled a new bridging loan with flexible underwriting. Available for a flat...

Commercial Trust adds Hampshire Trust Bank to lender panel

Specialist buy-to-let and commercial finance broker Commercial Trust Limited has announced the addition of Hampshire...

VAS Panel signs up 50th lender client

Masthaven Bank has become the 50th lender client that VAS Panel has signed up...

Oblix Capital appoints finance director

Steve Rogers has joined bridging and development lender Oblix Capital as its finance director.  Rogers (pictured) is...

Aspen unveils Finish & Exit bridging deal

Aspen Bridging has launched its new Finish & Exit bridge product. It is available up...

LendInvest secures £200m HSBC residential funding line

LendInvest has agreed funding of up to £200 million from HSBC UK. Th3 new funding...

Precise Mortgages appoints pair of BDMs

Precise Mortgages has appointed two new business development managers (BDMs) to support brokers in...

Sharp YOY rise in Q1 lending for bridging provider

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has reported a 60% increase in loan volumes at the...

Five-day refurb bridge for Aspen Bridging

Aspen Bridging has recently completed a five-day refurbishment bridge, with each element of the...

West One completes £20m bridge

West One Loans has provided a £20m first charge bridging facility against a high...

Roma Finance unveils bridge to term product

Roma Finance is utilising institutional funding for a medium-term mortgage product that customers can...

OSB provides new funding line for Catalyst Property Finance

Catalyst Property Finance has secured "significant" additional capacity to provide short-term finance to borrowers...

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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...

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...

Economic uncertainty weighing on business borrowers

Taken as a whole, Atom bank’s SME Pulse for Q2 shows the current robust health of demand in the commercial market. Around 95% of the...

Right of Light risks: a looming shadow over construction projects

Gone are the days when a Right of Light infringement could be swiftly dealt with by simply taking out an indemnity insurance policy. Specialists used...

Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

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Aldermore unveils new limited edition five-year BTL products

Aldermore has launched a pair of limited edition five-year buy-to-let mortgages for landlords, with...

AMI calls on advisers to take part in protection survey

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has launched its annual survey of mortgage and...

Broker confidence holds steady as mortgage market cools

Confidence among mortgage brokers held firm in the second quarter of the year despite...

The Suffolk cuts expat mortgage rates amid rising demand

Suffolk Building Society has cut rates across its expat mortgage range, with reductions of...