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Enra secures £500m bridging facility for West One

Enra Specialist Finance has agreed a new facility with J.P. Morgan to fund its...

Two new hires at Hope Capital

Hope Capital has appointed two new starters, Helen Hargreaves and Andrew Bate, to its...

FutureBricks added to Twenty7Tec

FutureBricks has joined Twenty7Tec, introducing its updated lending criteria to intermediaries. Brokers will be...

MFS products available through Twenty7Tec’s SOURCE

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has teamed up with Twenty7Tec to help more brokers to access...

Shawbrook Bank completes £14.5m bridging loan

Shawbrook Bank has funded a customer with a £14.5m bridging loan, allowing them to...

Tuscan Capital appoints regional manager for Midlands

Bridging lender Tuscan Capital has announced the recruitment of a new regional manager for...

Maximum LTV searches prevalent in all specialist sectors

Brokers are searching for ‘maximum loan to value (LTV)’ in large numbers, according to...

The Lending Channel partners with OMS

One Mortgage System (OMS) has signed an agreement with The Lending Channel to be...

Pink Pig Loans appoints three directors

Pink Pig Loans has  announced the appointment of a trio of new directors to...

Three new hires for Octane Capital

Octane Capita has made three new appointments. Mike Allen (pictured) joins Octane as an internal business...

Whitehall completes £2m Marylebone bridging loan

Specialist bridge financing fund, Whitehall Capital Management has completed a £2.025 million loan on...

Alternative Bridging Corporation makes service appointments

Alternative Bridging Corporation has recruited a new underwriter and case manager. Kalpna Patel joins Alternative...

FCA secures High Court Order against illegal money lender

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has obtained a High Court Order to remove around...

ASTL reveals 2021 annual conference details

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has announced the date for its 2021...

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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