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Hope Capital unveils its lowest ever bridging loan rate

Hope Capital has made changes to its discounted rate Loan product with rates now...

Fluent Money Group unveils brand refresh

Fluent Money Group has announced a brand refresh as part of its growth plans. In...

Alternative Bridging Corporation reduces 70% LTV rate to 0.6%

Alternative Bridging Corporation has cut the rate on its bridging loans up to 70%...

Suros Capital completes £240k loan in 48 hours

Suros Capital, the luxury asset short term lender, has completed a loan worth £240,000...

Castle Trust Bank joins SimplyBiz Mortgages panel

SimplyBiz Mortgages has added Castle Trust Bank (CTB) to its panel, allowing its member...

Black & White Bridging appoints head of underwriting

Black & White Bridging has announced the appointment of Lyn McLaren as head of...

Record month for bridging lender

West One Loans has reported that a total of £2.3bn sets of bridging loan...

Teamwork sees legals on £2.35m bridge completed “within hours”

Hope Capital and other parties have worked collaboratively to secure a £2.25m bridging loan...

MFS funds complex shopping centre acquisition

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has completed a large bridging loan to enable a returning...

Record quarter for bridging lender

Octane Capital lent £117m during the second quarter of 2021. This is the first...

Catalyst appoints relationship manager

Short-term finance lender, Catalyst, is expanding its new business team with the appointment of...

UTB joins Sesame and PMS panels

Sesame Bankhall Group has added United Trust Bank (UTB) to PMS Mortgage Club and...

BFS sees 85% growth in six-month lending total

BFS has seen an overall increase in lending of 85% in the six months...

Mint Property Finance unveils second ‘Power Product’

Mint Property Finance has introduced its latest ‘Power Product’ - the Light Works loan. It offers...

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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