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Jon Hall to leave Masthaven Bank in 2021

Jon Hall, chief commercial officer and Deputy CEO of Masthaven Bank, will to leave...

Catalyst to pay enhanced bridging procuration fees

Catalyst Property Finance has launched 'PROC-tober', an initiative for intermediaries which pays an enhanced...

Hope Capital appoints head of portfolio management

Jemma Wood has been promoted by bridging lender Hope Capital to the position of...

Four-fifths of brokers ‘ready’ for Covid second wave

United Trust Bank has revealed that 81% of property and commercial finance brokers who...

Precise Mortgages revamps bridging range

Precise Mortgages has launched a new bridging finance with improved LTVs and increased maximum loan...

Signature Property Finance hires new relationship manager

Short-term lender, Signature Property Finance, has appointed Bob Stones as its latest relationship manager. Stones...

Funding 365 improves light development product pricing

Funding 365 has reduced the pricing on its light development product, with now starting...

Hope Capital expands underwriting operation

Bridging lender Hope Capital has announced an expansion ion its underwriting team with the...

Bridgeshield joins ASTL

Bridgeshield has become the latest professional organisation to join the Association of Short Term...

Roma Finance appoints underwriter and boosts BTL funding

Roma Finance has announced both the appointment of Emma Barker as senior underwriter and...

Bridging lender hails record summer

Hope Capital has reported a surge in demand as the market emerges from lockdown. From...

BFS appoints North West BDM

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has appointed Damian Davies as business development manager in the...

Senior underwriter joins Hope Capital from Together

Mike Watson has been appointed as senior underwriter at Hope Capital. Watson (pictured) joins the short-term...

Optimum Commercial appoints national sales director

Optimum Commercial has appointed Chris Duckworth to the position of national sales director. Duckworth (pictured) has...

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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