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Signature appoints relationship manager for North West

Signature Property Finance has appointed Steve Woods as relationship manager for the North West...

New head of Y3S Bridging & Commercial announced

Specialist Mortgage Group (SMG) has appointed a new head of its Y3S Bridging &...

Sirius bolsters development division

Sirius Property Finance has appointed Devraj Ray as a senior associate in its development division. Ray...

First 4 Bridging offers Castle Trust Bank semi-exclusive BTL

First 4 Bridging (F4B) has launched a semi-exclusive buy-to-let product with Castle Trust Bank. The...

Alternative Bridging Corporation grows case management team

Alternative Bridging Corporation is expanding its case management team with the appointment of a...

Brightstar to hold May broker webinars

Brightstar Financial has set two dates in May for new webinars. They will feature content...

How to get the most from your BDM

Business development managers (BDM) are an integral part of the mortgage market, acting as...

Black & White Bridging joins FIBA lender panel

Black & White Bridging has become the latest lender to join specialist finance trade...

Pitch 4 Finance sees strong demand for commercial lending

Pitch 4 Finance has revealed that it received £66.8m worth of enquiries in its...

Shawbrook introduces e-signatures for BTL, bridging and commercial

Shawbrook Bank has launched e-signatures for bridging, buy-to-let and commercial investment customers. The e-signature technology is...

Mint returnee appointed as BDM

Mint Property Finance has welcomed Wayne Lee back to the business as business development manager (BDM). He re-joins the...

Developer uses Porsche 911 for short-term loan

Suros Capital, the alternative security short-term lender, has provided a £66,000 loan to a...

Together funds Fluent Money’s first bridging loan

Following its launch into the short-term market, Fluent Money Group’s first bridging loan has been...

Norton Broker Services unveils bridging department

Loan broker, Norton Finance, is now offering to intermediaries bridging finance as well as...
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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...
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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...
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Stonebridge reports sharp rise in protection policies placed in trust

The proportion of protection policies being placed in trust has risen substantially over the...
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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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