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MFS: we’ve lent £18m during lockdown

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has completed 22 bridging loans during the Covid-19 lockdown period,...

UTB completes bridge in six working days despite lockdown

United Trust Bank has completed a bridging loan in six working days, despite the...

Four senior appointments at new short-term lender

Short-term lender, Atelier Capital Partners, has announced four senior hires into its credit and...

Roma re-enters market with AVM and desktop valuations

Roma Finance has re-launched back into the market with an AVM product and a...

MFS arranges £500k bridging loan during lockdown

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has completed a £500,000 bridging loan to help a client...

UTB launches automatic ID verification sharing

United Trust Bank's ID verification information can be automatically shared with the bridging customer’s...

Aspen Bridging maintains pre-Covid property valuations

Aspen Bridging has declared that it will lend on pre Covid-19 property values. The bridging...

MFS teams up with restaurant to support NHS workers

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has partnered with fine-dining Indian restaurant Benares, to provide free...

MT Finance appoints London senior BDM

MT Finance has appointed Rory Cleary as senior business development manager for London. Cleary joins...

Impact Specialist Finance unveils Covid-19 update for specialist lending

Specialist mortgage broker and distributor, Impact Specialist Finance, has introduced a ‘Specialist Lending Covid-19...

Fiduciam lent £9m in Easter week

Fiduciam believes it is bucking the trend in the bridging market, having lent over...

Mint Bridging unveils Covid-19 deal

Short-term property finance provider Mint Bridging has introduced a new product for April designed...

Catalyst Property Finance ups bridging LTVs

Catalyst Property Finance has reintroduced a higher LTV bridging product up to 70% LTV. The lender had...

Knowledge Bank: Covid-19 searches most popular in March

Knowledge Bank’ has revealed that ‘Covid-19 Mortgage Payment Holidays’ was the most searched for...

COMMENT

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

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Coadjute joins FCA AI testing programme as conveyancers face tougher AML regime

Coadjute has joined the Financial Conduct Authority’s AI Live Testing programme as conveyancing firms...

Morrow hire to lead intermediary growth strategy

Morrow has appointed Amit Gupta as financial services director as it looks to expand...

Russell Quirk calls out broken transaction system

UK mortgage and property professionals have been urged to rethink the homebuying process after Russell...

Newcastle updates broker portal for faster product transfers

Newcastle for Intermediaries has upgraded its broker portal to make product transfers quicker and...

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