Specialist

Enterprise completes bridging loan in five hours

Enterprise Finance has completed a bridging loan in five hours to help a couple...

Specialist lender boosts credit team

Atelier Capital Partners has had made two appointments to its credit team. Former head of...

London Credit introduces new refurb deal

London Credit has launched a 'fast' refurbishment product. The Fast & Flexible Refurb allows for...

Nick Jones joins West One Loans

West One Loans has welcomed Nick Jones as its new sales director. In his new role,...

VAS Audit completes £200m milestone with short-term lender

VAS Audit has revealed that it has completed live auditing and assurance services on...

UTB starts offering Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS) facilities

United Trust Bank (UTB) has begun offering Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS) facilities of up...

Fiduciam expands its graduate programme

Fiduciam is to hire 10 graduates this year in an expansion of its graduate...

BFS supports Wirral children’s charity

Bridging Finance Solutions is backing Wirral youth zone, the Hive, funding its mentoring programme...

Octane Capital reaches £1bn lending milestone

Octane Capital has passed £1bn of completions in the four years since its launch...

Furlough no longer a major search criterion

‘Furloughed workers’ is no longer amongst the most-searched terms by brokers, according to Knowledge...

Tuscan Capital cuts rates and adds new product types

Tuscan Capital has made a number of changes to its broker-facing offering to include...

Bluebox Finance agrees deal with Suros Capital

Suros Capital has signed an origination agreement with specialist business and property finance broker,...

Record month for Roma Finance

Roma Finance has reported a record month in May, reporting a 50% increase in...

Brightstar launches virtual expo for specialist lending

Brightstar Financial has announced the Specialist Lending Virtual Expo, a free one day digital...

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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