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Knowledge Bank: people desperate to get on the property ladder

Knowledge Bank has revealed the details of the leading criteria searches made on its...

Record month for Funding 365

Funding 365 has reported that October was its biggest month to date, with loan...

Tuscan Capital unveils HMO offering

Tuscan Capital has introduced a new range of products aimed at investors looking to...

Alternative Bridging brings back overdraft product

Alternative Bridging Corporation has reintroduced its Alternative Overdraft product, offering lower rates and service-driven...

MFS partners with Vanquish Business Services

Bridging lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has teamed up with Vanquish Business Services (Vanquish)...

Dynamo expands bridging panel

Greenfield Mortgages has joined Dynamo for Intermediaries' panel of bridging lenders. The deal means club...

Octane Capital unveils buy-to-let calculator

Octane Capital has launched a new calculator that it believes will cut the application...

Hope Capital unveils “Halloween treat for brokers”

Hope Capital has launched a special version of its Seventies Collection, with two revamped...

Shawbrook bridges urgent auction purchase

Shawbrook Bank has completed a bridging loan for a customer who needed short-term funding...

Four new appointments at Mint Bridging

Mint Bridging has made a number of new appointments to its team. Karen Shepherd has...

New hire at bridging firm

Phoebe Sellars has been appointed as business development and loan manager at Bridge Help. She...

Glenhawk moves into regulated bridging

Glenhawk has launched its first regulated bridging product. Launched in direct response to increasing borrower...

Bridging provider unveils iPhone 12 incentive

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) is to give iPhone 12s to brokers and borrowers from...

Octane provides 1,000th loan

Octane Capital has completed its 1,000th loan since launching in 2017. The lender said the...

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...

Latest news

ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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