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Masthaven appoints independent non-executive director

Masthaven Bank has announced the appointment of Malcolm McCaig to its board as an...

Impact Specialist Finance and UTB complete bridge for later life borrowers

Specialist broker and distributor, Impact Specialist Finance, and United Trust Bank (UTB) have completed on...

Busy June for Aspen Bridging

Aspen Bridging approved £294m of deals across 382 cases last month. The figures are up...

Signature Property Finance added to Complete FS panel

Short-term finance provider, Signature Property Finance, has been appointed to the panel of Complete...

Nick Jones joins Roma Finance as commercial director

Roma Finance has announced the appointment of Nick Jones to its board as commercial...

Hope Capital sees June enquiry spike

Hope Capital has reported a stronger June performance than for the same month in...

BFS supports online property auction purchases

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) is supporting the auction property markets move online, as the...

Roma Finance unveils new bridging deals at 70% LTV

Roma Finance has launched new bridging products at 70% loan to value (LTV) and...

Castle Trust launches ‘Covid-19 level 3’ criteria

Castle Trust Bank has introduced new criteria which is says is in response to...

Roma Finance expands management team

Roma Finance has appointed Deborah Chaplain to the new position of head of customer...

Octane completes bridge-to-let in nine days

Octane Capital has completed a £2.6m bridge-to-let loan in nine days to a client...

ASTL introduces member newsletter

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has published its first member newsletter to...

Trio of promotions at Octane Capital

Octane Capital has promoted three of its senior team. Liam Lawlor has been promoted from...

First 4 Bridging adds Hampshire Trust Bank to panel

First 4 Bridging (F4B) has announced the addition of Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) to...

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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